I meant to post this long back, but for some reason I held back.
Does this article pass the smell test?
The Mongol emperor [Genghis Khan] inseminated so many women in his 40-year career raping and pillaging across Asia that he created a pool of at least 16m male descendants who today carry his Y, or male, chromosome.
Yes, it is a Times of India link and so it goes without saying that you should be suspicious of what you read there. But my question relates to the figure of 16 million. Does it make sense?
The rest of the science looks sound. Y-chromosome is passed unchanged from father to son, so if indeed it turns out that 16 million men (1.6 crore) have the same Y-chromosome, then it must mean that they had the same male ancestor sometime in the past. The article gives geographical and historical reason why it could be Genghis Khan.
I’ve done my own calculations and the results look… interesting to me. But tell me what you think.
BTW – The same story was carried on Kuro5hin.
So, it might be true after all. And not just a times thingy.
(link to the story on Kuro5hin )
That apart, I think it could be possible.
The guy was virile and strong. And resilient.
SO an MLM kind of structure of sons could be managed.
If you ovelook the one thing. The number of people per 1000 who are born impotent
I did a brief mathematical analysis of this claim. There were around 40 crore ppl in 1250(source http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/worldhis.html), after genghis khan’s tenure compared to 600 crore ppl now. So, a simple back-mapping tells us that 1.6 crore men now, will have approximately 10 lakh ancestor males in that population, the assumption being here that the children Genghis khan spawned were not in general more promiscuous than the other contemporary adults. So, this brings us down to account for 10 lakh people with the same Y chromosomes as an immediate result of the sexual excesses of Genghis Khan, his four sons and two grandsons as mentioned in the article. The fact that only Genghis khan is remembered for those brutalities means we can safely assign half of that figure directly to him.
This means one king in 40 years actually spreads his Y chromosome in 5 lakh males. With 40 years meaning arnd 15k days, he actually succeeded in impregnating 33 women per night( or day too, if he had no other job ;)).
The fallacies in the above simplistic assumptions are not hard to find. We can easily say that the tribes originating from him gave birth to more children etc. But that doesnt make the scenario look any more feasible. Well if he did…. HATS OFF TO HIS STAMINA AND LUCK;)
Any similar info on Hitler?? anyone 😉 Cmon, Nazis are supposedly everywhere. Arent they ? HEHEHE
Dear Sir I think your approach to history and fact excellent in general only Truth can lead to Understanding and only Understanding can make Virtue possible and only through Virtue can Peace and Wisdom be found , personally descending from the Khan his morality or lack of it is of interest to me, being in a public library with limited usertime I have no time to carefully read your conclusions now but have made a printout to study at home and in the meanwhile congratulate you on your perfect rationa~-sceptical approach Sincerely Inez Deborah Emilia Altar