It's interesting to think that if your maternal grandpa had married your paternal grandma and your maternal grandma had married your paternal grandpa, and if later their children had gotten married and decided to have a child, you could still exist, amirite?

+260 It's interesting to think that if your maternal grandpa had married your paternal grandma and your maternal grandma had married your paternal grandpa, and if later their children had gotten married and decided to have a child, you could still exist, amirite?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Is this actually true? because you couldn't have the same parents. . .

by Anonymous 12 years ago

The kids would be completely different, causing you to be a completely different person.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

But you would have a chance of getting the same genes meaning that you could theoretically be the same person

by Anonymous 12 years ago

But with a different conscience.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yeah, you'd could only have the same genetic makeup as you do right now. Your parents wouldn't be the same, so you'd grow up in a different environment making you into a completely different person.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

So basically you would have a different life.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yep, which begs the question (that is such a cool phrase), would it still be "you"?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

In my opinion, no. Like I said above, different conscience.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

It'd be more than a different conscience, because a conscience is what determines right from wrong. The "other you" would have, different likes, dislikes, habits, etc. As far as my last question, the "other you" would basically be your identical twin. So a different person.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I wouldn't say identical twin, since they would take the appearance of the different parents.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Actually, they would, cuz they'd have the exact same DNA as you. They wouldn't technichally be an identical twin becuase they weren't formed from the same egg. I guess technically they wouldn't even be your twin because you'd have different parents. So an identical, person with semi- different ancestry but the same genes. "New you" and you would be exactly the same at conception, but would grow into different people.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I see, it makes perfect sense, to me anyway.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

The odds of you recieving the exact same genes or even similar ones is infinitesimal.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

But theoretically possible which is all this post was saying

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Isn't it like two parents having children have like 86 million different genetic combinations? I'm trying to go off (a faulty) memory from bio.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Something like that, I'm not sure of exact numbers. But with just 3 generations and accounting for crossing over, the odds are pretty much zero.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I think the word you need is Ferturnal not perturnal

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Maternal - mother's side Paternal - father's side

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Dang!!! :( I knew I was wrong in some way

by Anonymous 12 years ago

^ Interesting ideas to think about.

by Anonymous 12 years ago