Ancestral numbers in genealogical generations
The piece explains that the recorded number of ancestors does not double each generation due to intermarriage. After the third or fourth generation, actual ancestry falls short of the theoretical count. Over ten generations, 300 to 409 distinct ancestors emerge instead of 1,024. The concept highlights how kinship unions reduce generational expansion.
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