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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
(Score: 3, Funny) by art guerrilla on Thursday March 12 2015, @10:49AM
1. from the shows i see about the bible, seems like it is not *exactly* received wisdom from on high, but mere mortal, venal, stupid, lying men who made those decisions of what to include/exclude...
*and* there are many 'books' which were excluded for reasons having *nothing* to do with their so-called authenticity, but with politics, patriarchal control, and the preferences of whichever religious leader was swinging the big dick at the time...
2. um, *WHY* wouldn't the bible mention other cast members if that were so ? ? ? EU right-to-privacy laws anticipated by thousands of years ?
3. by that 'logic', we can say dog almighy also gave adam/eve (and a cast of thousands!) an ipad and a jetpack, since that isn't mentioned, either...
unless that was your point, in which case i've been played a fool...
i will now begin capering and jesting...