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virus: A Prolific Genghis Khan, It Seems, Helped People the World
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A Prolific Genghis Khan, It Seems, Helped People the World
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/11/science/11KHAN.html
"A remarkable living legacy of the Mongol empire has been discovered by
geneticists in a survey of human populations from the Caucasus to China.
They find that as many as 8 percent of the men dwelling in the confines of
the former Mongol empire bear Y chromosomes that seem characteristic of the
Mongol ruling house.
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If so, some 16 million men, or half a percent of the world's male
population, can probably claim descent from Genghis Khan.
..."I think it's astonishing," said Dr. Robin Dunbar of the University of
Liverpool, co-author of a leading textbook of human behavioral ecology.
"This is a staggering example of how a very small lineage can have a hugely
disproportionate share of the descendant population.""
Regards
Jonathan
http://www.limbicnutrition.com/blog/
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