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PicardTangoAlpha t1_j1vqya6 wrote

Reply to comment by lynmc5 in What is the ‘widest’ ancestral generation? by vesuvisian

Whats the widest it can be in a place like North America with large influxes from overseas?

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guynamedjames t1_j1w0dsr wrote

You'll get your widest from interracial households, especially when you get multiple generations of interracial mixing. So your African grandma, dutch grandpa, Chinese grandma and Indian grandpa type families are realistically going to be very far apart generically. And within that, historically people from cities will have more diverse genes than those from the country

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MetricJester t1_j1xr8dq wrote

Also: three of those grandparents could also be children of Genghis Khan.

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