What the Mongols did for us
The Golden Horde wasn’t barbarous, it created the modern world
What the Mongols did for us
The Golden Horde wasn’t barbarous, it created the modern world
The greatest killer of all time?
Recently there was a somewhat stupid “controversy” on Twitter where someone tried to get “Genghis Khan canceled.” It was mostly a joke but illustrated an important fact: it is hard to deny the reality of the brutality of Genghis Khan’s conquests. Part of the reason is that the Mongols themselves are not shy about what […]
Perhaps the Genghis Khan modal haplotype is not Genghis Khan’s?
Literally hundred of thousands of people have read my post, 1 in 200 men direct descendants of Genghis Khan, since 2010. It was based on the paper The Genetic Legacy of the Mongols*, which reported that one particular Y chromosomal lineage was very common in Central Asia, and, that it exhibited hallmarks of explosive growth […]
Kkkhhhaaannn!!!
My post, 1 in 200 men direct descendants of Genghis Khan, is linked up somewhere almost every week. Why is it so popular? No idea. But one thing that has come to mind: we’ve come a long way in since the early 2000s in assembling databases of human scientific genealogies. Soon enough a substantial proportion […]
“Descendant of Genghis Khan” sequenced
Chinese Scientists Announce the First Complete Sequencing of Mongolian Genome: In this study, the DNA sample was from a male adult who belongs to the Mongolian “Royal Family” and is the 34th generation descendant of Genghis Khan. “The sample is very valuable for the study with a full record of family pedigree and no background […]