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Every 200th man is said to be a descendant of the Mongol ruler. A DNA analysis of skeletons of the Golden Horde now shows that the story is much more complex
The Independent
The Independent (US)Are one in 200 men alive today truly descendants of Genghis Khan?
Common lineage likely originated 1,000 years before the Mongol conqueror built his empire
The idea that one in 200 men in the world would descend from Gengis Khan has gone far beyond the scientific circle to become a true popular narrative. This spectacular figure was based on the identification of a widely used Y chromosome haplotype in Central Asia. But the advances in ancient genetics now allow us to go further by directly analyzing the DNA of individuals linked to Mongolian elites. These new data provide a more nuanced insight in…
UW study disproves theory that 1 in 200 men are descendants of Genghis Khan
The Mongol Empire holds an important and mysterious place in the history of central Eurasia, and has since piqued the interest of many researchers. One of these researchers is Ayken Askapuli, a PhD candidate in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Wisconsin. Askapuli and his archeologist colleagues in Kazakhstan are interested in testing the folklore-based hypotheses regarding buried relatives of Genghis Khan from medieval …
The common lineage probably originated 1,000 years before the Mongol conqueror built his empire.
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