Is that right, Jared, in an average year for our population?

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If people in this population meet and breed at random, it turns out that you only need to go back an average of 20 generations before you find an individual who is a common ancestor of everyone in the population.

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But Yeovil, an area of similar population size with a faster average broadband speed, clocks up a monthly average of 4, 259 downloads.

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