A new genealogical research paper claims to have found a quite ancient great ... great grandmother of most of us.

Although not a high resolution image, a fairly large portrait of granny is included, that you can add to your family tree if you wish.

The description of the genealogical researches conducted were quite fascinating to me, and seem to have shown some falacies in prior researches which likely will be modified to accomodate the new findings. Since the methods are not simply applied to personal researches, they may be of lesser interest to some; but others will have to take a look and decide for themselves.

One difficult of adding "granny" to your personal tree is that it does leave about 6,000,000 generations you'll need to fill in between her and the oldest other ancestors you're likely to have found. A second consideration is that including her does clearly make your pussycat (and the rat in your cellar) both distant cousins.

Check it out:

Our Grandmother.

(She has lovely hair, but her teeth look a little fierce; but that's what li'l Red Riding Hood said.)

John