Twitter mob angry about Cleopatra cast
(thefederalist.com)
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Here is a sculpture of Cleopatra which is roughly dated to when she visited Rome in 40~ BC. I would say Gadot is a good match.
That is impressive looks for being one of the most inbred people to ever live. She was 45% inbred. For reference, a brother and sister produce a 25% kid and impregnating yourself is 50%.
(Looks at heredity chart on Wikipedia.)
Holy shit, there was literally no new genetic stock introduced for five generations. You have 32 great-great-grandparents. She had TWO. And one of those great-great-grandparents was himself the product of a brother and sister.
(Well, technically more than two since there was so much niece-uncle pairing that the generational count gets muddled so her great-great-grandparents along one chain are her great-great-great-great-grandparents along another, but I think that's splitting hairs since all the other great-great-grandparents are also part of the knot below those two progenitors. If they had something like Reddit back then there'd be posts like "TFW your brother impregnates both your sisters and you have to wait for one of their kids to come of age to get yours.")
EDIT: I suspect this is exactly why animal breeders (where inbreeding for traits can be common) that I've seen use a different chart that just branches off 2 ways each generation no matter what and lets you figure out how many different critters are involved. This "tree" is so much spaghetti.
It is fun to look at different versions of her family tree and find new inbreeding every time.
I thought humans had some basic anti-incest wiring that keeps most of us from finding people we grew up around sexy. Did that just not exist with these people?