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BoiledLiverDefense t1_je4shv7 wrote

Reply to comment by Ras82 in We have more female than male ancestors. by Intelligent-Bottle22

Even if only one male from every generation impregnated all the women, you would still have the same number of male and female ancestors.

All your explanation shows is that the population collectively has more female ancestors than male ancestors. Each individual would still have one male and female ancestor from every generation.

Can OP elaborate on whether they meant we as in the population's collective ancestors or everyone's individual ancestors.

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boltzmannman t1_je6u9rb wrote

You personally have the same number. Everyone collectively has fewer, because of the overlap.

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Xijannemb t1_je7l4hm wrote

At some point you will exhaust the quantity of people that have a mutually exclusive set of ancestors to your own, thus the child from any union will have some small portion of ancestors that are on both sides of the family tree. Could it be argued that due to the increased likelihood of males being in the category where they are an ancestor to both the mother and father that OP correct?

Lol, OP could be right because incest

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