Is everybody in the world related?

Question

Today my cousin told me that everybody in the world is related. But as soon as he told me this, I told him that didn't make any sense, because if everybody in world was related it would kind of be like incest. And as soon as I told him this, he called me an atheist and started freaking out. So I want to know is everybody in the world related?

Serious answers only please

Thanks

Answer 1

Evidence from mitochondrial RNA supports the theory that all of modern humanity share a common ancestor.

Answer 2

Not only that, but we're related to every other living thing on the planet. You can take any two organisms and trace their evolutionary histories back until you eventually arrive at an ancient species that was an ancestor of both. I find that rather fascinating.



It's one thing to have sex with your sister. The genes in this case are too close, and likely to result in inbred offspring. But most people you meet are not even direct cousins (people who have the same grandparents) 2nd cousins (same great-grandparents), 3rd cousins (same great-great-grandparents), etc. Your parents were "Nth-cousins" but for some number "N" big enough (read: so far removed from each other) that you couldn't really call it "incest".



If you look at the human population and do the exponential math, you'd see that to insist there was absolutely no crossing over of families would take us to a population of 2 just 2,000 years ago. Obviously, there was a lot of overlap of families.

Answer 3

YES!

Everyone in the world is related. We are all cousins. In fact we are all CLOSE cousins. Most people who have similarities, such as skin color, hair color, face shape, etc. are probably no further than 12th cousin apart. What's more, no matter how isolated you are, nobody on EARTH is more than 50th cousin away from anybody else.

OF course we are related, we are all human beings, members of the same species. Just like all dandelions are related to every other dandelion, and all tigers are related to every other tiger, and every whooping crane is related to every other whooping crane, all people are related to every other person. It's nature. But it's not incest.

Answer 4

If you go back a couple hundred thousand years...yes.

That's not "incest" though, which is defined as sexual relations between extremely close relatives (direct relatives like mother/son/father/daughter, brother/sister, in some cultures extending out to first or second cousins). There isn't a culture in the world I know of that considers sex between third cousins "incest," and third cousins are can trace common ancestors back only two generations...



Peace.

Answer 5

Even scientists and not just religious folks say that we humans are all closely related. But of course you are even more closely related to your siblings, parents, cousins and so on. It is incest to have sexual relations with a close family member or close relative as I've mentioned. One reason is that there is a higher chance of birth defects.

Answer 6

I suppose it could be argued that if you go far enough BACK genealogically speaking we could all be related in some way - we are all in the same "Family of man" All God's children etc - finding a direct blood line link is not really possible though in reality.... so it's a rather inane premise and point to attempt to make...really.

Answer 7

no



Bible has two creation accounts, mankind on the sixth day (no mention of how many or where God placed them) GOD RESTED on the seventh day. And then was the specific creation of the man Adam, mentioned solely because the Savior of the world would come through his bloodline (Gen 3:15). Adam and Eve were in the Garden of Eden and the Bible doesn't say that anyone else was besides their children. The first mention of other people in the Bible is those in the land of Nod, where Cain got his wife.



I think it is also easy enough to look around at everybody and know that we cannot all be related. If that were true, BY NOW, we would all have variations of the same color hair and eyes, the most obvious of the similarities. In other words, blue or green eyes would have been bred out of the gene pool long ago.



but I don't accept evolution in explaining where man first came from

Answer 8

Yes.



Check out the book "the Seven Daughter of Eve" it traces back mitochondrial DNA (only traceable via females) to seven 'clan mothers', and eventually one woman dubbed as Mitochondrial Eve.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve



http://www.amazon.com/Seven-Daughters-Eve-Science-Ancestry/dp/0393020185



And some one else did another study that follows the Y chromosome (only traceable via males) back to Y-Chromosome Adam, that collaborates the above study. (What's funny is the guy that did this study was trying to *disprove* the Eve one).



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y-chromosomal_Adam



However, Y-Chromosome Adam lived much later than Mitochondrial Eve did, possibly 50,000 to 80,000 years later.



This isn't so far fetched you when factor in things like the Tabo event, which is said to have reduced humanity's breeding population to around 1000 - 10,000 about 69,000 - 77,000 years ago! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory

Answer 9

Well he is right, but I'll have to say his brain works extra hours.



Each person in the world grows differently in both mind and body, looks differently and acts differently in many ways. We are all related, well, because we are all humans. We are all the same animal. We all have the same basic needs and we was all born in the same way. Just think about it.

Answer 10

Adam and Eve were the first beings. Everyone is related to them, so if everyone is related to them, then everyone is related to each other. makes perfect sense if you take the time to think about it

Answer 11

Not only everybody, but every living thing is related.

Answer 12

Yes! Everybody is related. Consider these facts. From the creation of Adam and Eve it took 4,200 years before the earth reached its 1st Billion inhabitants. It only took another 130 (1930) years to reach 2 billion. After another 30 years it reached 3 billion. after another 15 years it reached 4 billion and so on until its present 7 billion.



Another fact. At a time when the population of earth could be measured in just a few millions, the patriach Abraham married his half sister. In the meantime, Abraham's brother Nahor, married his neice, Genesis 11:29.



Most pointedly, Adam and Eve gave birth to sons and daughters (Genesis 5:4).

Answer 13

yeh

Answer 14

Yup.



Whether you believe in evolution or Adam and Eve, we were all created from the first and second persons born on the earth.

Answer 15

All life is related, however tenuous this family tie may be. We have but one ultimate source. One cell began all.

Answer 16

this is shown that there is one strian of DNA this is in anybody which would be hint to a minimum of one individual and that i belive in god and that i even have faith in technology to so yae in a fashion we are all brothers and sisters thats one ingredient in commen that the two a variety of "religions" have

Answer 17

Tell him to read ALL of the Bible! Point out that it says Adam & Eve were the "FIRST" couple made.

That Adam and Eve only had sons! The sons married woman from other families! That were female. That is also why we have different types of blood.......

That is also why the "Christ" when he was to come would trace back to Adam and Eve and why the Jewish were required to always know their geneology.

Answer 18

Simple answer .. yes.



whether you believe in god or evolution, all man woman and child is related

Answer 19

Yes we are all related.

Answer 20

Yes. That may be the only thing that science and religion agree on.

Answer 21

Logically yes in some way or another.

Answer 22

i think that everyone in the world is related because we all obviously came from two people you know so they had kids and their kids had kids and so on. in this way i am distantly related to you or you are distantly related to michel jordan. because we all came from two original people.. thats my understanding.

Answer 23

I sure hope not

Answer 24

No.



The Genesis story of Adam and Eve was just a story. Even if it wasn't, it only says that Adam and Eve were the "first", not the "only" people God created.



So, no.

Answer 25

noo...?

your cousin is a god prayer/person/dude...