HOLY SHIT!!! I just got my results back from the same place she got her test done ..... turns out I have lyme disease. Who'd have thunk it??
I think you are looking good these days.
HOLY SHIT!!! I just got my results back from the same place she got her test done ..... turns out I have lyme disease. Who'd have thunk it??
No it means you're the kind that gives that kind a bad name.I've got a little Captain Morgan in my bloodstream.
Does that mean I'm a pirate?
The Vikings had a thing for men in robesThey picked on monasta
They picked on monasteries mostly, you know. The unarmed religious types.
The romans never had success in Scotland or Ireland. It was just England really, but the original people there were Celts too.
How painful was it for CNN to have a video with that title?
1 in 200 men direct descendants of Genghis Khan
In 2003 a groundbreaking historical genetics paper reported results which indicated that a substantial proportion of men in the world are direct line descendants of Genghis Khan. By direct line, I mean that they carry Y chromosomes which seem to have come down from an individual who lived approximately 1,000 years ago. As Y chromosomes are only passed from father to son, that would mean that the Y is a record of one’s patrilineage. Genghis Khan died ~750 years ago, so assuming 25 years per generation, you get about 30 men between the present and that period. In more quantitative terms, ~10% of the men who reside within the borders of the Mongol Empire as it was at the death of Genghis Khan may carry his Y chromosome, and so ~0.5% of men in the world, about 16 million individuals alive today, do so. Since 2003 there have been other cases of “super-Y” lineages. For example the Manchu lineage and the Uí Néill lineage. The existence of these Y chromosomal lineages, which have burst upon the genetic landscape like explosive stars sweeping aside all other variation before them, indicates a periodic it “winner-take-all” dynamic in human genetics more reminiscent of hyper-polygynous mammals such as elephant seals. As we do not exhibit the sexual dimorphism which is the norm in such organisms, it goes to show the plasticity of outcome due to the flexibility of human cultural forms.
Jason Goldman of Thoughtful Animal reminded me of the 2003 paper a few days ago, so I thought it would be useful to review it again for new readers (as I know most of you have not been reading for 7 years!). To understand how one Y chromosomal lineage can have such a wide distribution across such a large proportion of the human race, here is a quote attributed to Genghis Khan:
The greatest joy for a man is to defeat his enemies, to drive them before him, to take from them all they possess, to see those they love in tears, to ride their horses, and to hold their wives and daughters in his arms.
You’re probably more familiar with the paraphrase in Conan the Barbarian.
The Genetic Legacy of the Mongols:
We have identified a Y-chromosomal lineage with several unusual features. It was found in 16 populations throughout a large region of Asia, stretching from the Pacific to the Caspian Sea, and was present at high frequency: ∼8% of the men in this region carry it, and it thus makes up ∼0.5% of the world total. The pattern of variation within the lineage suggested that it originated in Mongolia ∼1,000 years ago. Such a rapid spread cannot have occurred by chance; it must have been a result of selection. The lineage is carried by likely male-line descendants of Genghis Khan, and we therefore propose that it has spread by a novel form of social selection resulting from their behavior.
1 in 200 men direct descendants of Genghis Khan - Gene Expression
Genghis’ oldest son had 40 legitimate sons; his grandson Kublai Khan had 22. Today, nearly 16 million men, or one in every 200 men on earth, are directly descended from Genghis Khan. In the domains of the former Mongolian Empire, that number rises to one-in-eight. You could say there’s a little bit of Genghis in all of us.
Many of my forebears were from northern Europe ... Looks like I could be Asian in blood ...
True and not all over the land bridge. DNA findings and archeological discoveries of tools and weapons found on the east cost show Neanderthals from Western Europe we’re here as well over 10,000 years ago. Personally I think what we know of the distant past is 1/2400 of what really went downThis entire discussion of Native American decent is rather funny. It is funny because what we know as Native Americans are not really Native to the Americas, they came form somewhere else as well.