We Are All 1/16th Cousins
From FactCheck.
In an article last September, the Chicago Sun-Times laid out Obama's ancestry - including the genealogical, if not spiritual, relationship between Obama and Cheney. According to the newspaper, they are ninthcousins once removed, with their common ancestor being Mareen Duvall, a French Huguenot who settled in Maryland in the mid-1600s.
The New York Post, using ancestry.com, reported<http://www.nypost.com/seven/10282007/news/nationalnews/cousins_by_dozens.htm> that Brad Pitt and Obama are ninth cousins. Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga told <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7176683.stm>the BBC that his maternal uncle was Obama's father, making them first cousins (we think).
We wouldn't make too much of this, though. After all, according to at least some researchers, a common ancestor<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15457259\?dopt=Abstract> for all humans now alive may have existed just several thousand years ago. That means you, dear reader, could have a cousinly relationship that may notgo all that far back to everyone from Jack Kevorkian to Tina Fey to Hugo Chavez to the woman selling trinkets from a piece of cardboard on a Bangalore street corner.
In an article last September, the Chicago Sun-Times laid out Obama's ancestry - including the genealogical, if not spiritual, relationship between Obama and Cheney. According to the newspaper, they are ninthcousins once removed, with their common ancestor being Mareen Duvall, a French Huguenot who settled in Maryland in the mid-1600s.
The New York Post, using ancestry.com, reported<http://www.nypost.com/seven/10282007/news/nationalnews/cousins_by_dozens.htm> that Brad Pitt and Obama are ninth cousins. Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga told <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7176683.stm>the BBC that his maternal uncle was Obama's father, making them first cousins (we think).
We wouldn't make too much of this, though. After all, according to at least some researchers, a common ancestor<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15457259\?dopt=Abstract> for all humans now alive may have existed just several thousand years ago. That means you, dear reader, could have a cousinly relationship that may notgo all that far back to everyone from Jack Kevorkian to Tina Fey to Hugo Chavez to the woman selling trinkets from a piece of cardboard on a Bangalore street corner.
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