How Many People Made You?

This is a tricky math question and a trickier biology question.

The obvious answer is two. Good job. Here's your B+ in math.

However, if you take a longer view, how many people made your parents?

Answer - four.

Now, we're making progress. Go back further in time, how many people did it take to make your grandparents that made your parents?

Answer - eight.

Let's jump to twenty generations back.

Answer - 1,048,576!

It took over a million people to make you!

Here's your A in biology.

That makes you pretty special. Over a million people loved, lived and work to make you. You are the final product of a million people that lived before you.

Let your life mean something to the million people that wanted you to be alive today.

Write your life stories.