Are you and I by any chance related? According to a report by Bernard Derrida of the Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France and colleagues in Physical Review Letters [1 March 1999], the statistical properties of genealogical trees suggest that we could very well share a distant ancestor.
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Ball, P. Strangers are just relatives you haven't met yet. Nature (1999). https://doi.org/10.1038/news990311-2
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/news990311-2
