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To: Ilaine who wrote (123617)	1/24/2004 4:33:10 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 281500

CB, I recall my maternal grandmother talking about "second cousin once removed" or some such jargon, which sounded to me remarkably like parts of grammar, such as "pluperfect past participles" or something, both of which made my eyes glaze over as being irrelevant to me. Both subjects leave me as bewildered as third order partial differential equations and Fourier transforms would leave you. With modern life and globalisation, there are specialists for the most absurdly arcane knowledge. The rest of us can enjoy the fruits of such expertise with very low unit costs. One specialist's knowledge spread over 6 billion people is pretty cheap. Bring it on, to coin a phrase. With 6 billion of us, there are 10s of millions of high IQ whizzo people who can do all sorts of magic. It's a great time to be alive. Never before have individuals been able to benefit from such a vast array of talents. It's nothing short of amazing. And, the fun has just begun. <These distinctions are too important to trust to the mere males of a family> Not only that, but males also wouldn't have a clue what's really going on. Many's the proud father of a brilliant child whose brilliance has more to do with the mother, or a third party. Mqurice

To: Ilaine who wrote (123617)	1/24/2004 5:01:38 AM
From: Bilow	Respond to of 281500

Hi CobaltBlue; Re: "These distinctions are too important to trust to the mere males of a family, so don't feel bad." It is interesting that most of the people you will find in the local library doing genealogical research are women. My attitude is that we're all nth-cousins m-times removed, with any two of us meeting the criteria for a very large number of different values for n and m. We're one species, and in the larger sense, we are fully inbred. So what's the big deal? I know people who've supposedly traced their ancestry back to Adam and Eve. (BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!! LOL!!! BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!) But don't laugh at them. Or sit down and calculate how many trillions of different ways it is possible to have a 32nd cousin. The reason that the definition of nth cousins m-times removed can't be trusted with (most) males is that the males know that they don't mean squat. Maybe that's cause the males don't *have* to raise the babies... Uh, by the way. Suppose a man divorces, and then gets married to his ex wife's niece. What are the possible blood relations between the progeny of the two marriages? -- Carl