By cryptoreforma on Skatehive
It is a debatable Portuguese curiosity that goes beyond “patriotic” exaggeration; genetic mathematics shows it to be a possible reality. Concept: we all have two parents, four grandparents, and eight great-grandparents. If we go back 30 generations (which takes us back to approximately the 12th century), the theoretical number of ancestors of a single person would be over a billion, and our ancestors are repeated in our family tree. D. Afonso Henriques (1109-1185), the first King of Portugal, was a monarch and had privileges that ordinary people did not have. His legitimate children married into the high nobility, his illegitimate children into the lower nobility, and it is possible that these branches intermingled with the bourgeoisie and the common people over the centuries. ﾠ It is enough that a single descendant of the king entered a particular family line 500 years ago for thousands of people today to share that DNA. In a geographically small country like Portugal, this intermingl