Name: 【TED】AJ Jacobs: The world's largest family reunion ... we're all invited! (AJ Jacobs: The world's largest family reunion ... we're all invited!)
Uploaded: 2017-01-14T20:30:45.000Z
Duration: 9 min 46 s
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10,000 dollars to his Nigerian bank, right?

I have enough trouble with some of the ones

And I won't name names, but you know who you are.

But another part of me said, this is remarkable.

Here I am alone in my office, but I'm not alone at all.

I'm connected to 80,000 people around the world,

and some of them are going to be irritating,

So this email inspired me to dive into genealogy,

which I always thought was a very staid and proper field,

but it turns out it's going through a fascinating

Partly, this is because of DNA and genetic testing,

but partly, it's because of the Internet.

is the same as the A.J. Jacobs in another tree,

and then you combine and combine and combine

So that's 75 million people connected by blood

It's in all seven continents, including Antarctica.

And he is my aunt's fifth great-aunt's husband's

wife's niece's husband's first cousin once removed's

Now, I'm not boasting, because all of you

have famous people and historical figures

in your tree, because we are all connected,

with all, almost all, seven billion people on Earth.

and I'll give you five reasons why, really quickly.

This is an unprecedented history of the human race,

and there's a team of scientists at MIT right now

I found out I'm connected to Albert Einstein,

Now Albert Einstein is not some dead white guy

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【TED】AJ Jacobs: The world's largest family reunion ... we're all invited! (AJ Jacobs: The world's largest family reunion ... we're all invited!)

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