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Stick figure chart titled "500 GENERATIONS (25 years per generation)": a grid of black stick figures with a few colored ones. Top-left green figure: "11,000 BC all humans everywhere are hunter-gatherers"; "no matter what your ethnicity or family history, your great^497 grandmother was a gatherer in a hunter-gatherer tribe". Other colored figures: great^217 grandmother "was around when written history began";…

500 Generations of Grandmothers Stick Figure Chart

A Wait But Why stick figure chart shows how few generations separate you from pyramid builders and Jesus, a humbling history-class perspective check.

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Stick figure chart titled "500 GENERATIONS (25 years per generation)": a grid of black stick figures with a few colored ones. Top-left green figure: "11,000 BC all humans everywhere are hunter-gatherers"; "no matter what your ethnicity or family history, your great^497 grandmother was a gatherer in a hunter-gatherer tribe". Other colored figures: great^217 grandmother "was around when written history began";…

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