Waking Gods - Sylvain Neuvel

Book 2 of The Themis Files

Waking Gods (Sylvain Neuvel)
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—People look at fff…family trees the wrong way. They think you start with someone, then you branch down to their ch…children, then their grandchildren, and the tree gets bigger going down. It d…d…doesn’t. It grows upwards. —How does that have anything to do with the survivors? —Think of it like this. You have two p…parents. You have four grandparents. You have eight great-grandparents, sixteen great-great-grandparents. That’s about one hundred years ago. Twenty-five years, thirty years p…per generation on average. Two hundred years ago, you’re looking at about two thousand ancestors. Ffffive hundred years ago, that’s…fifty…million. —How many going back three thousand years? —Just keep d…doubling every thirty years. You get to a billion very fast. By t…twelve hundred years, you reach a trillion. Three thou…three thousand years ago…It doesn’t matter what the number is. It’s t…too big. —That makes no sense. There weren’t a trillion people on Earth twelve hundred years ago. There aren’t close to a trillion now! —That’s because the same p…people appear mmm…many times on your family tree. Your twenty-fifth great-grandfather is also your distant cousin. Mmm…most people will appear hundreds, thousands of times in your ge…genealogy. The farther back in time you go, the fewer people there are on Earth, and the more branches there are in your family tree. Soon, you need…all of them, to fill the b…br…branches. —I’m not sure I under— —If you lived on Earth back then, either your line died out and you have nnn….no descendants at all, or you’re an ancestor to everyone alive…t…today. Everyone who lived a couple thousand years ago, and whose line didn’t di…disappear, is your ancestor, and mine, and everyone else’s.
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