Procedurally Generating Life Stories of Fruit Flies Across Generations

The underlying article for this post is interesting, too.

http://www.freeholdgames.com/papers/Generation_of_mythic_bio...

I'd love to have more time in the universe and the computing power to not look at the information transfer or the number of degrees of separation but to consider how those connections were formed. What could we learn about human relations by investigating the chain of connections of millions of humans? I'm certain it would give huge insights into how we could generate fictional narratives that are richer, also, but that would be the least.