RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
March 6, 2022 at 12:33 pm
(This post was last modified: March 6, 2022 at 1:22 pm by Anomalocaris.)
The current royal family is only like 300 years old?
To say they have been illegitimate for 500 years seems to give them too much credit?
Genetic studies suggest about 10% of children born into marriage were illegitimate, and the rate show surprisingly little variation across different cultures across the world, across social status and across times. The typically person therefore has very high chance of finding multiple illegitimate direct ancestors within the last 10 generations or 250-300 years.
To say they have been illegitimate for 500 years seems to give them too much credit?
Genetic studies suggest about 10% of children born into marriage were illegitimate, and the rate show surprisingly little variation across different cultures across the world, across social status and across times. The typically person therefore has very high chance of finding multiple illegitimate direct ancestors within the last 10 generations or 250-300 years.