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Currently Playing: You are not genetically related to all your ancestors.

It seems like a paradox, but you are not related to most of your ancestors. You inherited an equal number of genes from each of your parents, who received an equal number from their ancestors. There is a good chance you don't actually have any genes from most of your ancestors. Some genes seem impossible to brush off though. Are there some traits that everyone in your family seems to have?