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<\/b> descendants who today carry his Y, or male, chromosome. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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? <\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
I’ve done my own calculations and the results look… interesting to me. But tell me what you think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}