I would expect that if we go back 1000 years, then all Eurasian farming humans alive at that point are your ancestors.
A sensible question would weight ancestors by amount of shared genes.
If you disagree with the question, why answer deep in the comments of one answer than at the top level?
By sensible, I don’t indicate disagreement, but a way of interpreting the question.
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I would expect that if we go back 1000 years, then all Eurasian farming humans alive at that point are your ancestors.
A sensible question would weight ancestors by amount of shared genes.
If you disagree with the question, why answer deep in the comments of one answer than at the top level?
By sensible, I don’t indicate disagreement, but a way of interpreting the question.