I know it will make no difference because @leon as you say is an idiot, but I found the following delicious from Adam Rutherford: The European genetic isopoint is a thousand years ago, and the global… (View Post)

I don't think @leon could possibly grasp even the faintest notion of understanding that. (View Post)

Yes you can because the number is so large. 100 years ago the number is only 2 to the power 4 so only 16 ancestors if you have a generation every 25 years, so of course it will be very rare for us to… (View Post)

The population of GB a 1000 years ago was a few million. 40 to the power of 2 is around 1,000, 000, 000,000. I counted on my fingers so could be out by a factor or two and I rounded down to 1000 ever… (View Post)

Says the person who didn't understand secondary school maths the other day.. (View Post)