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And this is what brought me to ask this question. If DNA is being ‘replaced’, what does that process look like? I assumed that this was the action of reproducing within a large enough pool of individuals to end up seeing DNA from any given individual eventually being booted, for lack of a better way to put it. Which means that the Church presumably claims that all of the 3 early...

Thank you, Simon. Your response is helping to make some things understandable to me.
Or can the same eventual drop out occur via genetic drift given enough time, if Group A is merely significantly reduced but generationally continues to reproduce along with the larger group, creating a traceable line that could be (theoretically) documented like a family tree, but not veri...

The figure below … shows how the percentage of ancestors who contributed DNA to you starts to drop off beyond 6 generations and by the 10th generation only about 50% contribute DNA.




Simon, I’m asking this as a person who knows pretty much nothing about this subject, so I apologize for ignorance and incorrect word use:

For the chart above, ...

Will's newest piano piece will be titled "The Lamented Lost of the Lyman Salient".

Statistics: Posted by Bond — Sat Sep 12, 2026 1:48 am

That's really pretty. Now I wish I'd snapped a photo of the bloody carcass with vultures picking it clean. You guys are living in paradise. We're over here living in country fried crap.

There might be some long bones left...Thanks, Jersey Girl. That’s ‘Yerba Mate Verde’ we had the painter spray on our walls. I’d post a picture of our morning view, but I’m afraid it mi...