Quilotoa@lemmy.ca to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 24 hours agoTIL Benedict Cumberbatch is the third cousin, 16 times removed from King Richard III who he played in a British miniseries.en.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square34linkfedilinkarrow-up1185arrow-down122
arrow-up1163arrow-down1external-linkTIL Benedict Cumberbatch is the third cousin, 16 times removed from King Richard III who he played in a British miniseries.en.wikipedia.orgQuilotoa@lemmy.ca to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 24 hours agomessage-square34linkfedilink
minus-squaretoynbee@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·19 hours agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve
minus-squareValiantDust@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·17 hours agoThat’s exclusively through the matrilineal line though. The most recent ancestor is much more recent. But your article linked to what I was referring to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identical_ancestors_point (and the mitochondrial Eve is a cool concept either way)
minus-squaretoynbee@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·14 hours agoAgreed about the concept being cool.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve
That’s exclusively through the matrilineal line though. The most recent ancestor is much more recent.
But your article linked to what I was referring to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identical_ancestors_point (and the mitochondrial Eve is a cool concept either way)
Agreed about the concept being cool.