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We are now in the 21st century. It would be fascinating for you to see where and why your ancestors drifted over the planet in the past. It was all a massive search for something, and often a desperate pursuit. That story would reveal many trends to you. The problem is that, for most ordinary people, little records have been kept; only kings and wars are well reported. But your personal tribal history would be a chronicle worth seeing. We are all the product of our ancestors. Somewhere in time, there is a direct physical contact point linking your body to all your ancestral mothers and fathers. If the chain had been broken anywhere, then you would not be reading this. In that sense, we are now standing on the shoulders of all our ancestors. But most of the time we are blissfully unaware of it.