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Thursday, September 28, 2006 12:00 AM

Confucius finally invites women to the party!

The longest-running family tree in history is poised to include females.
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  • Friday, September 29, 2006 08:41 PM

    The tip of the iceberg

    Those 1.5 million descendants are just the officially-recognized ones. Almost everyone living in the world today is directly descended from Confucius, and Mohammed, and Caesar Augustus, and Buddha, and almost everyone who had children 1200 years ago or more.

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