AJ Jacobs got an unexpected e-mail. This was from his 12th Cousin in Israel who informed him that he was a part of a family tree with 80,000 relatives! This set him on a quest that took him to an ever widening family tree and to the fact that just 7000 generations ago we all came from the same parents! It is estimated that any two persons on earth are just 50 steps away at the most from being related. Yes family feuds can get a bit ugly but isn’t all this squabbling and wars going on around the world going a bit too far?
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