Wow, that timeline is amazing!

I've been thinking (or overthinking, IDK) on having a meaningful life, perhaps for 40 years more, and then I read about what has happened in the last 100 years (let's say, 1 generation) , 200 years (2 generations), and that gives you a huge perspective on you being a single person in a whole universe of time and billions of human beings.

Aaaaand after that inmense universe, we are a whole world for, we say, 50 people in this day.

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~tetris wrote (thread):

We are riding the wave of progression that our ancestors incrementally contributed to!

And I do mean our ancestors⁰, and not just yours or mine:

Go back 20 generations and you and I share an ancestor with Europe¹
Go back 80 generations and you and I share an ancestor with the World².
Go back 170 generations and we all share all the same ancestors³.

[Footnotes]

0: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/humans-are-all-more-closely-related-than-we-commonly-think/
1: (2022 - 1492) / 25, maximum estimate
2: (2022 - 55) / 25, maximum estimate
3: (2022 - -2200) / 25, maximum estimate