Not even inbreeding, strictly speaking, when you go back that far. At 12 generations back you’ve got lots of ancestors with common ancestors, but they aren’t so closely related that conceiving a child between them would be incest. Doesn’t have to be siblings; very distant cousins would also reduce the number of total ancestors. They need not even have known their relation to one another.
this is fucked up calculations, for 100th generation we would need more humans than have ever lived
Your flaw is assuming that a couple only produces one child. Many humans can share the same ancestor.
That’s not his flaw, but OP’s.
Don’t forget the recurrent loops of inbreeding. Reality is definitely less than 2^generation
Not even inbreeding, strictly speaking, when you go back that far. At 12 generations back you’ve got lots of ancestors with common ancestors, but they aren’t so closely related that conceiving a child between them would be incest. Doesn’t have to be siblings; very distant cousins would also reduce the number of total ancestors. They need not even have known their relation to one another.