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  1. Oct 20th, 2011, 04:10 AM #1
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    ... generations would I have to go back before I would be unsuccessful in incestuously mating with my great great (great ....) grandmother and producing offspring?
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    Re: How many ...

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    <translation>Which of my ancestors can I legally bump uglies with? And can anyone spare a shovel?</translation>
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    Re: How many ...

    What's the goal? You wouldn't get viable offspring from any that are unable to raise children, so that leaves out all the dead ones.

    Technically, the answer is 0. Inbreeding does cause negative effects, but doing so for a generation or two is unlikely to cause trouble. Once you get a couple generations apart, the genetic similarity is pretty small. If you have the combination of your parents genes, then you are only 50&#37; related to either parent, 25% related to any grandparent, and so on. 1/2^n relationship back n generations. Since you would have a fair probability of having viable offspring even with a sibling, the odds of genetic consequences back a few generations is getting pretty small.
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    You answered the wrong way around. I want to know how many generations until my ancestors are no longer considered human.
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    Re: How many ...

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    ... generations would I have to go back before I would be unsuccessful in incestuously mating with my great great (great ....) grandmother and producing offspring?
    We used to have a guy working for us that would write gross SQL statements like that!
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    Re: How many ...

    I want to know how many generations until my ancestors are no longer considered human.
    In your case... none
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    Quote Originally Posted by Max Peck View Post
    We used to have a guy working for us that would write gross SQL statements like that!
    Oh no and I thought I was unique.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Max Peck View Post
    We used to have a guy working for us that would write gross SQL statements like that!
    Did he quit on his own or was he re-trained?
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    Did he quit on his own or was he re-trained?
    He moved on to another job a few years back. I refuse to work with his SQL queries myself, some of the [damned] things are 200 lines long! You would not believe them if you saw them. Extreme, and very easy to break.

    Good thing he didn't work for me. I wouldn't want a developer on my staff that wrote anything that cryptic. I kid you not ... almost impossible for another developer to maintain. Really gross.

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