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the invisible relay race where you're handed a baton you never asked to carry
means The line of descent connecting a person, family, or thing back through its ancestors and origins.
from From Old French 'lignage' — descent, extraction — built on Latin 'linea,' a line, the same word that gives us linen thread and the straight pencil line. The image is literal: ancestry imagined as a single taut string stretching back through the generations, each person a knot tied along it.
shared ancestorAll humans descend from one woman ~150,000 years ago
royal mythMost European royals trace to Charlemagne, and millions do
mitochondrialYou inherit this DNA only from your mother
genealogy boomDNA testing exposed countless secret family lines
word originFrom Latin linea, a thread or line