Badlyphotoshopedconfucedfloofygiraff
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They don’t get around much ehh?
Edit: wohoo, FP!
Now do yourself a favour and Google Quokka (even if you know what it is, you deserve a smile).
afyrwench
That’s so cool!
ObsoletelyFabulous
Where does one gather DNA from a 9000 year old skeleton?
kermotherapy
This is in a country where they know that it takes few centuries to grow a proper lawn.
Thispostisaboutacat
♫ He died and sand amassed on top of him. Can’t find the Chedder Man. He sleeps in caves cuz he’s a caveman. Can’t find the Cheddar Man ♫
IMustGrowUpReally
GrandPa Dano
Preincarnated
His ancestor looks kinda disappointed in him
Seiuz
Only one is lactose intolerant, it might surprise you which one.
batttyroy
Smayds
Always gotta upvote Ashens.
chronictimetravleking
Neat!
ohdonpiano
This man was my history teacher!! Kings of Wessex school in Cheddar
ILostMyBobblehead
Local innem!!
Wookiwook
Wouldn't alot of people be directly related to this hunk of cheese?
neoritter
Kind of depressing the man has no kids. Cheddar man's line ends with him :(
Feralkyn
Nah this guy was one of maaaany don't be sad
siberianhufky
Highly unlikely, there will probably be many other lines that all go back to him still around.
avavilina
Considering how many descendants Cheddar man could possibly have in that amount of time, I think that's unlikely.
McGlashan
As interviewed on the excellent This Morning with Richard Not Judy, in 1998https://youtu.be/J9if1g7I0GU?t=1563
IamRodHull
Do they have Jelly?
fantasticlight
Miss this show.
xerofall
What a cheesy name.
doubleyouexwhyandz
I have doubts.
FavorableSquire
I don't. I'm from a close city and Somerset, well, let's just say.....
FajitaPrinceofAllMexicans
I mean I could understand how it would happen to an island nation that their descendants wouldn't go too far.
stiof95
It’s a big island nation tho that’s experienced thousand of years of internal and external migration and other demographic changes
stiof95
I would guess it’s maybe the case of their being so few originally inhabitants to Britain that pretty much anyone may he descended from them
HeCalledMeCheifPiggum
Getting married in that cave next year! Well. Hopefully.
meganical
Gotta say, never have I heard of someone getting married in a cave so points for you for being unique
HeCalledMeCheifPiggum
Also it's where Cheddar cheese is from. I will be gorging on it pre-ceremony.
sgtxsarge
I heard about this guy. I think I read about it in Ripley's Believe it or Not about 10 years ago.
Level21Magikarp
This guy fucks.
boyLies
Someone should have taken the scissors from him... bangs, really bro?
glovelyday
Came for the climate, stayed for the cheese.
MrRemakes
More like stayed and made cheese.
scottEkarate
I would move
FiftyShadesOfMascarpone
Yeah, maybe get some fresh blood into that line while it still has the right number of fingers and toes.
SiriHowDoIAdult
Fuckin Chedda twins mate
Emperorofman
Fuckin drugga *sniff*
Olympicin2005
This is gold
apeshigh
Defo interbreeding. Cheddar in bread.....?
howsplendid
That’s inbreading
SiriHowDoIAdult
At the very yeast
Badlyphotoshopedconfucedfloofygiraff
Rising to the occation
BoooBerry
I dunno, the old one looks to have gotten a LOT more sun than the newer guy. Wait. Can they determine melanin levels from DNA?
thor1000
The found out they were related through his teeth, but then a few years later they drilled some bone and found out that he was dark but
thor1000
With blue eyes. The original cheddar mans ancestors migrated from Africa intermingled with Arabs then they migrated through Scandinavia , th
thor1000
En crossed the old land bridge from mainland Europe into the west of England. He was one of the the resulting children
phuzz00
They can determine your base level of melanin, but obviously it depends on how much sun you get.
sweatyfarts
Taldur08
How do know that it's that many generations?
goudist
It almost certainly isn't exactly 300. If this pop sci post is factual, the actual number would probably be more like 275 +/- 25 generations
Taldur08
I am asking how they calculate that number
Taldur08
Is it based on some chromosome (s)?
goudist
Not a geneticist so this is a guess: probably base pair mutation rate in mitochondrial DNA.
Mekeji
Either estimation on average age of reproduction, or by using the relatively steady rate of mitochondrial mutation over time.
DudeThatsRacist
Carbon dating? And then just estimate based on human lifespan.
Isexualiseeverything
Magic
ThisDeservesMoreUpvotes
That title +1
witalaska4
I didn’t see the title at first, so I scrolled up and LMAO
Badlyphotoshopedconfucedfloofygiraff
Thanks, needed a cheesy pub to get your attention.
Barbanera
300 generation and they never moved from that spot ! What a lazy family.
InTheDistanceAPlaintiveEnglishHorn
He's probably descended from a bunch of Celts, Saxons and Normans who migrated from very far away
neoritter
*Successful. If your genes can make it down 9000+ years in one spot, you've been winning the natural selection game.
ProfessorChaos
Maybe it's just a good fuckin' spot, mate.
lVlARIO
It is, apart from the grockles.
manic502
It is genuinely gorgeous. Literally. Google chaddar gorge
KiopMiko
You weren't kidding.
PornhubsFirstTree
I once had a friend named chedda bob who shot himself in the leg with his own gun
Thelrishlnquistion
Did he chedda tear over it?
Badlyphotoshopedconfucedfloofygiraff
Now you call him swiss Bob instead.
Scottchr
HoneNathan
Dang
ILikePunsMoreOrLessThanYouDo
Cheddarman looks like a disappointed great^300 grandfather
Schaade
An expression that says, "school teacher? 300 gen, why you no doctor??"
ProbablyBigfoot
Oh, you're a teacher? Thats nice, I guess....
Albeitreserved
I feel like hes got the 'crazy sumbitch actually pulled it off' vube going
SimpleJack35
Wouldn't he have millions of direct decendents
pumly
Many many more.
Liftingsan
They probably tracked him by comparing Y-cromosome. Since only the father can give one and it doesn't mix with the other cromosome 1/2
Liftingsan
Y-cromosome can be use to track direct paternal decendency. A pure paternal decendency is not that common. 2/2
WoopDeFrickenDoo
I fully don't understand
lego687
If I understand correctly, this means 300 generations with at least 1 son. No generations with all girls, or the boys failing to breed.
WoopDeFrickenDoo
well, if took ya long enough to answer my question from last year
jharasym
Sure, increases the odds, but it's still fun to think you're sitting on the ground where your 300-great-grandad lived.
Feralkyn
Iirc yes and he had a TON.
TeaStainOnMyKitchenFloor
I thought direct descendent meant it was the first son line all the way down.
Doyourecycle
Damn he better check his family tree. The gene pools may have mixed with that many generations running through the same area.
InTheDistanceAPlaintiveEnglishHorn
This is almost meaningless. He may have a tiny drop of this man but Britain has been an orgy of non stop migrations for thousands of years
Feynris
I've heard that all modern Europeans are related to Charlemagne and every 9th c. europeans who has still have descendants...
Feynris
...If they've found one living descendants, i bet he has a lot more descendants.
Feynris
(source : https://www.theguardian.com/science/commentisfree/2015/may/24/business-genetic-ancestry-charlemagne-adam-rutherford )
Badlyphotoshopedconfucedfloofygiraff
Depends, does eighter of them look like they get a lot of action?
zwinzCookieTerror
If they had only one child in each generation, then it's him alone. two children, it would be 2^300, that's a 2 and ninety 0s. Trilliabillio
zwinzCookieTerror
But of course they wouldn't be alive today all, I forgot
IIIdkbruh
I bet that man on the right has eighter nine mistresses
svennisiggi
For 300 generations women proved you wrong.
jimicus
It's Cheddar, FFS. There's probably family connections through aunts, uncles, cousins, step-parents and everything else besides.
Badlyphotoshopedconfucedfloofygiraff
Usually all those people are the same person though.
onikame
Kinda crazy when you think that nearly 9000 years is only 300 generations. (It makes perfect sense, just kind of wild to look at)
trueunpopularopinions
And they say Alabamans are inbred
Safebox36
It's kinda outlier tbh, usually people migrate and that leads to new gene pools forming.
randoMarblePilot
Well I’m 200 years younger than my grandpa’s grandpa. So they were making babies quicker than my fam does...
Mimsey
Remember that when racists start trying to tell you that humans are like dogs and that just because we can mix doesn't mean... /1
Mimsey
that some "races" are like German Shepherds while others are like Chihuahuas. Dogs reach maturity in about a year. /2
Mimsey
So in those 9,000 years in which humans had 300 generations, dogs had closer to 9,000 generations. /3
Mimsey
Which is why humans are remarkable genetically homogeneous and racists are full of shit when they claim their race is "more evolved." /4
Mimsey
Which is itself another fallacy, because humans, fruit flies, banana trees, and black mold are all equally "evolved". /5
AbelardSnazz
That one family survived rule by Celts, Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, Normans and hundreds more. This is good: https://youtu.be/xwPVk72GLfY
talkingtothepast
I wonder how many generations The U.S. is old
ReasonablySorryButNotTooMuch
This blew my mind: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/special-features/2014/11/141111-veterans-day-150-anniversary-civil-war-memories/
flavivsaetivs
Depends. Looks like they're defining Generations as 30 years. Usually they're defined anywhere from 25 to 33 years so could be more or less.
stankginchfurbuger
I really think through most of human history a generation (the time it takes the average member to reproduce) was like 15 years
themuttonisniceandlean
My family has only 4 generations between 1896 and 1999. (my grandmother through my 1st kid). It *really* varies.
capughe
My family has shorter generations. 5 generations currently living. Those sluts.
POTUSBrown
My family did too. My grandmother, my uncle, my cousin her son, his son.
flavivsaetivs
We're about the same. Most of my family was executed by Otto Von Bismark. Great Grandfather came over to America.
themuttonisniceandlean
My great grandfather came over in 1850 from Ireland potato famine time. My p. grandmother was born in 1886. M. grandmother 1896.
lalalalsblablabal
Any background story about this? I am just curious.
flavivsaetivs
Schultheis is basically something like a half-Judge half-Sheriff/Baliff. We didn't comply in his political purges. My Great-Grandfather 1/2
merelyadequategooglymoogly
If you want to really blow your mind, calculate how many grandparents you have that far back.
ScrewMyVacationPlansIGuess
Probably about 300
JUKEBox721
At least 3
alexburgers
The number vastly exceeds the number of people who ever lived, so you're technically related to everyone on earth. Yay?
Schmapplesauce
....2^300?
onikame
you have four grand-parents.
Schmapplesauce
Yeah, but 4^300 arrives at the wrong number if we're calculating your amount of ancestors. If you wanna exclude your parents, I guess it 1/2
Schmapplesauce
Would be (2^300)-2
onikame
Right!? Now consider how likely it is you are distantly related to everyone you've had sex with.
OverlyOpinionated
My great aunt gave me a list of last names to avoid when I went to school in PA because my family is so prevalent there. It was long.
onikame
That is very foresightful, loving, and horrifying.
MrsFartSimpson
That's why all my kids have webbed toes!
greenking13
No, that's because you fucked a fish.
MammaryExhibitNumberOne
I mean the fishman from The Shape of Water is pretty cute...
MrsFartSimpson
Well I do love fishsticks.
ICheckUsernameAndSuch
Like Don Knotts in The Incredible Mr. Limpet?
FrankenstienFarts
Shut it, Meg.
itrynottocommentbutyoumakemecringe
Yea, I’m not watching step sibling porn for the acting.