In the early years of Chinese immigration, immigrants created "surname societies" as mutual aid organizations, with the explicit knowledge that any blood relationship was almost certainly fictive but a fictive family association is better than nothinghttps://twitter.com/XiranJayZhao/status/1332102230502096896 …
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It's the basic math behind Mitochondrial Eve and Y-Chromosome Adam (everyone in the entire world has mitochondrial DNA that descend from one person, everyone in the entire world who has a Y chromosome has one that descends from one person)
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I wonder if any decent fantasy worldbuilders have developed remedies to that in the cultures they design I've thought a lot about spousal name merging ("Smith-Johnson") and how it seems unsustainable... but on the other hand, racehorses seem to have a variant of that
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Even if you have a matrilineal and patrilineal surname, as long as you have only two and not an infinitely expanding list, you'll eventually just have one of each That's literally what Mitochondrial Eve and Y-Chromosomal Adam are
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