• atro_city@fedia.io
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    3 hours ago

    Fits very well. Completely wrong, but definitely something that one could come up with in the shower.

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      3 hours ago

      Not completely wrong at all, even if you disagree with the generation length (which is an average after all) the maths is correct. The 0AD thing isn’t, but you can’t have everything.

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    4 hours ago

    All those hundreds of mothers and the bloodline ends with my ugly face. My ancestors must be rolling in their graves.

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      the bloodline ends with my ugly face

      Highly unlikely, unless you’re fixated on the specific mother/father combo. You won’t be the first person who failed to reproduce with a shared set of ancestors. Just support your community and make the lives of your procreating peers easier. That’s all any ancestor can ask of you.

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    5 hours ago

    But wouldn’t we have to factor in like… just 5 monthers ago life expectency was so low that teenage mothers was the norm.

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      Teenage motherhood for the first child, sure. But women can continue having children into their 40s without significant difficulty. No guarantee that the firstborn will be the one who thrives relative to younger siblings particularly if the mother is an inexperienced or impoverished mom as a teenager.

      So you really need to look at the median motherhood age, not the first opportunity of pregnancy.

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        Indeed, and there was high infant mortality when teenage motherhood was the norm as well.