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Millions of Modern Men Found to be Descendants of 11 Asian Dynastic Leaders.

posted by LaminatorX on Wednesday March 11 2015, @08:07PM   Printer-friendly
from the Who's-your-daddy? dept.

AnonTechie writes:

Geneticists from the University of Leicester have discovered that millions of modern Asian men are descended from 11 powerful dynastic leaders who lived up to 4,000 years ago - including Mongolian warlord Genghis Khan.

The study, which is funded by the Wellcome Trust and published in the journal European Journal of Human Genetics, examined the male-specific Y chromosome, which is passed from father to son, in more than 5,000 Asian men belonging to 127 populations.
Most Y-chromosome types are very rare, but the team discovered 11 types that were relatively common across the sample and studied their distributions and histories.

Two common male lineages have been discovered before, and have been ascribed to one well-known historical figure, Genghis Khan, and another less-known one, Giocangga. The Leicester team found genetic links via a chain of male ancestors to both Genghis Khan and Giocangga, in addition to nine other dynastic leaders who originated from throughout Asia and date back to between 2100 BC and 700 AD.

http://phys.org/news/2015-03-millions-modern-men-descendants-asian.html

[Abstract]: http://www.nature.com/ejhg/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ejhg2014285a.html

 
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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by GungnirSniper on Wednesday March 11 2015, @08:34PM

    by GungnirSniper (1671) on Wednesday March 11 2015, @08:34PM (#156287) Journal

    It has only been in recent decades that rape has been considered a war crime. It wasn't even used as a charge against the Nazis after WW2. Prior to the last century or three it was fair game much of the time, and seen as a reward for the victorious soldiers as well as to permanently destroy or demoralize the conquered people.

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  • (Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Wednesday March 11 2015, @10:36PM

    by LoRdTAW (3755) on Wednesday March 11 2015, @10:36PM (#156344) Journal

    Prior to the last century or three it was fair game much of the time, and seen as a reward for the victorious soldiers as well as to permanently destroy or demoralize the conquered people.

    I'm pretty sure rape has been used as a weapon for a few myriaannum.