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Tracking down the ancestors — fun but a little pointless
David Saks
WS Gilbert pokes fun at ancestral one-upmanship in The Mikado, with the absurd Pooh Bah boasting how he could trace his ancestry "back to a protoplasmal, primordial atomic globule". How ultimately meaningless it is to brag about one's ancestors becom...

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