Eastern Utah Advocate | 1902-10-23 | Page 7 | All the World Akin

ALL THE WORLD AKIN very easy matter to prove a comma relationship if we accept the old adage that alg urea ures wont lie ile as a true one hero here Is a plausibly plau way of proving that ill all the people in the world are akin to each other A man has two ancestors ir the first generation his father anu and mother in the second generation 11 ancestors are four because he had 0 a grand fathers and two gr grandrud andrad e S each of these four had two pa p its As there fore in the third gelp aboa loii are eight ancestors that la a 01 great grandparents going on with this calculation wo we find that in the fourth generation there are sixteen ancestors in the fifth generation thirty two in the sixth sixty four in the seventh in the tenth generation there are 1024 ancestors in tho the twentieth in a the thirtieth and as the entire population of tho the globo globe Is only about you seo see how it Is possible to prove a common relationship