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Is the whole World inbred ?

  • 01-06-2012 04:53PM
    #1
    Stiffler2
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,536 ✭✭✭


    If we all came from a small group of people who made it off Africa "back in the day"

    gonna say it was 80 people as I saw a doc a while ago and think this was the number ( although how the F**K would they really know ye ? )


    so if we're all descended from 80 people is the whole world inbred then ??

    Just looking to my left and to my right at people in work I would have to say.

    Yes Tom, yes we are.


    thoughts ?


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  • #2
    LostCorkGuy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 445 ✭✭LostCorkGuy


    nah we're made from ribs , damn sexy bbq ribs i'd like to think but that bit was never clarified :/ ?


  • #3
    Jen Pigs Fly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,770 ✭✭✭Jen Pigs Fly


    Apparently every person on the world is related - we all evolved from the same ancestor
    I will find some concrete proof of this though, never fear!


  • #4
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    LostCorkGuy wrote: »
    nah we're made from ribs , damn sexy bbq ribs i'd like to think but that bit was never clarified :/ ?

    ¿Que


  • #5
    pebbles21
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,816 ✭✭✭pebbles21


    Adam and Eve have belly buttons!...go figure


  • #6
    LostCorkGuy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 445 ✭✭LostCorkGuy


    My name is URL wrote: »
    ¿Que

    bible story where your man pulled a rib out of adam and made eve ?


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  • #7
    Duggys Housemate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,298 ✭✭✭Duggys Housemate


    Stiffler2 wrote: »
    is the whole world inbred then ?
    Just looking to my left and to my right at people in work I would have to say.
    Yes Tom, yes we are.

    thoughts ?

    To be fair, the world is not Sligo.


  • #8
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    LostCorkGuy wrote: »
    bible story where your man pulled a rib out of adam and made eve ?

    Ah right.. I thought you were just on acid!


  • #9
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,787 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    Stiffler2 wrote: »
    gonna say it was 80 people as I saw a doc a while ago and think this was the number
    More like 50,000. 80 of just about any animal isn't enough to support a species. I think we went as low as around 50,000 at one stage and that was a near extinction event for our species.


  • #10
    shopaholic01
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,916 ✭✭✭shopaholic01


    Got the hots for your cousin OP?


  • #11
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Stiffler2 wrote: »
    If we all came from a small group of people who made it off Africa "back in the day"
    gonna say it was 80 people as I saw a doc a while ago and think this was the number ( although how the F**K would they really know ye ? )
    so if we're all descended from 80 people is the whole world inbred then ??
    Just looking to my left and to my right at people in work I would have to say.
    Yes Tom, yes we are.

    thoughts ?
    Aye...

    Where did those 80 people descend from!

    Space! :eek:

    Transporters at the ready Mr Spock!


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  • #12
    The King of Moo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    No, because of the aliens.


  • #13
    Jester252
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,533 ✭✭✭Jester252


    The Mud people are already here


  • #14
    rab!dmonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 643 ✭✭✭rab!dmonkey


    It wasn't quite 80 people OP, according to Wikipedia it was possibly 1,000 breeding pairs at its lowest. I imagine they work it out by examing the distribution of DNA around the world - DNA that's present all around the world would be indicative of it being present at the population bottleneck, I'd imagine.


  • #15
    Battered Mars Bar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 672 ✭✭✭Battered Mars Bar


    We're well watered down at this stage, except for small island countries with small populations where people for generations usually married someone fairly local....can't think of any such place off the top of my head though.


  • #16
    Madam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,501 ✭✭✭Madam


    Is the whole World inbred ?

    Of course it is, look at the state its in!


  • #17
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Is it cos I is black?


  • #18
    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    LostCorkGuy wrote: »
    bible story where your man pulled a rib out of adam and made eve ?

    even at the beginning women were taking from us


  • #19
    Kylo Ren
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,366 ✭✭✭✭Kylo Ren


    We are descended from cats who were in bread.

    See picture for proof


  • #20
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,369 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Not me, I can't play the banjo.


  • #21
    Captain Darling
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,542 ✭✭✭Captain Darling


    The King of Moo wrote: »
    No, because of the aliens.
    Aliens.


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  • #22
    spankmaster2000
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 345 ✭✭spankmaster2000


    ScumLord wrote: »
    More like 50,000. 80 of just about any animal isn't enough to support a species. I think we went as low as around 50,000 at one stage and that was a near extinction event for our species.

    Au contraire!

    http://io9.com/5897169/dna-reveals-that-cows-were-almost-impossible-to-domesticate
    They discovered that the differences between these ancient DNA sequences and those of modern cattle were so minute that the only way to explain them would be if the original cattle population was extremely small, with about 80 cattle the most likely number. As the researchers explain in Molecular Biology and Evolution, since the domestication process was spread out over a thousand or so years, that's the equivalent of only adding two new cattle each generation.


  • #23
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,029 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    We came from chimpanzees.


  • #24
    Pace2008
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,587 ✭✭✭Pace2008


    Chuck Stone wrote: »
    We came from chimpanzees.
    Nein. Both humans and chimps are believed to have evolved from a common ancestor, the "missing link" you've probably heard of.


  • #25
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,029 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    Pace2008 wrote: »
    Nein. Both humans and chimps are believed to have evolved from a common ancestor, the "missing link" you've probably heard of.

    Nope. We definitely came from chimpanzees - we branched off about 6000 years ago.

    A guy in the pub told me.

    Look how similar we are to these monkeys.



  • #26
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,787 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    spankmaster2000 wrote: »
    Au contraire!

    http://io9.com/5897169/dna-reveals-that-cows-were-almost-impossible-to-domesticate
    Race horses would be the same too, they came from a very small number of animals. Neither of those animals would probably do to well if they where let go wild again though. I know there are wild horses in America that came from domestics but they're probably a different kettle of fish compared to thoroughbreds. I'd make the same assumption about cattle, don't know they'd do to well left to their own devices, some can't even breed naturally and require AI to keep the breed going.


  • #27
    JerryHandbag
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭JerryHandbag


    We are all descended from Xenu, who arrived a gazillion years ago in a mothership and jizzed all over the planet, we are his "seed".

    Something like that anyway. HAIL XENU!


  • #28
    LETHAL LADY
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,145 ✭✭✭LETHAL LADY


    Im so inbred I would ride meself sideways.


  • #29
    a fat guy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 800 ✭✭✭a fat guy


    The landmass was actually called Geneva. Bits of it broke off and formed the continents we have today, if I remember it correctly.


  • #30
    3ndahalfof6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,184 ✭✭✭3ndahalfof6


    like Brennans?


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  • #31
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,787 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    a fat guy wrote: »
    The landmass was actually called Geneva. Bits of it broke off and formed the continents we have today, if I remember it correctly.
    Pangaea I Think. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangaea. Geneva is a city in Switzerland.


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