Just now

When I was outside enjoying my fag, but not enjoying the sound of the road being drilled, I also started thinking about the family tree. It's a funny thing, but not only does a person acquire more and more ancestors the further back he goes, but he also acquires more and more descendants the further forward he goes. The second part, of course, only applies to persons who reproduce. If this idea could be shown as a diagram, there would be a whole load of connected pyramids pointing both upwards and downwards. A tree is okay to show the bare line of descendancy, but it only shows a fraction of what's really going on.