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Genghis Khan STILL getting around
Posted: 2003-02-12 05:48am
by Mr Bean
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=200 ... 0301-1566r
In over 90 percent of the Asian men tested, the Y-chromosomes were quite diverse, indicating a multiplicity of paternal-line ancestors in their highly varied family trees. In striking contrast, 8 percent had Y-chromosomes that were virtually identical, indicating a common recent forefather.
This individual man's Y-chromosome is today found in an estimated 16 million of his male line progeny in a vast swath of Asia from Manchuria near the Sea of Japan to Uzbekistan and Afghanistan in Central Asia. That's one of every 200 males on Earth today.
Early in the last millennium, the population of the world was, speaking very roughly, 1/20 as large as it is today. Therefore, the average man alive then has 20 descendants alive today in his direct male line. In contrast, with about 16 million direct descendants, this one mega-ancestor was something like 800,000 times more successful than the average.
The co-authors wrote, "Within the last 1,000 years in this part of the world, these conditions are met by Genghis Khan (c. 1162-1227)
Dammmmnnnnnn,
16 Millon desdants, Now THATS getting around
Posted: 2003-02-12 05:50am
by EmperorMing
Gives a new defenition to the term "Fucking around"...
Posted: 2003-02-12 06:03am
by Admiral Valdemar
WTF?! That guy singlehandedly sow the seed of Asia?!
Posted: 2003-02-12 06:46am
by Robert Treder
Admiral Valdemar wrote:WTF?! That guy singlehandedly sow the seed of Asia?!
Well, not single-handedly, per se...he had lots of help. Lots of beautiful, sexy help.
Posted: 2003-02-12 07:05am
by Admiral Valdemar
Robert Treder wrote:Admiral Valdemar wrote:WTF?! That guy singlehandedly sow the seed of Asia?!
Well, not single-handedly, per se...he had lots of help. Lots of beautiful, sexy help.
I want to be a warlord.
Posted: 2003-02-12 07:40am
by Keevan_Colton
Admiral Valdemar wrote:Robert Treder wrote:Admiral Valdemar wrote:WTF?! That guy singlehandedly sow the seed of Asia?!
Well, not single-handedly, per se...he had lots of help. Lots of beautiful, sexy help.
I want to be a warlord.
Its great, get laid as much as you want....cause random devestation when ever you get stressed....set your own hours.....
*claps* You! More mead now!!!
Posted: 2003-02-12 11:49am
by The Yosemite Bear
I mean lets all jump in a boat & pillage England, just sounds so tempting.
Posted: 2003-02-12 02:03pm
by Soontir C'boath
No kidding, I have a couple friends in my school that are descendants of Ghengis.
Cyaround,
JAson
Posted: 2003-02-12 02:30pm
by The Yosemite Bear
I have a friend whose descendant of Charlemane...
Posted: 2003-02-13 12:43am
by Gandalf
I used to go to school with a guy who was the descendant of some old Chinese royal line.
Posted: 2003-02-13 12:55am
by Darth Fanboy
My ancestor that was killed in the Civil War died when a tree fell on his head after being hit by Confederate cannon fire.
or so the story goes.
Posted: 2003-02-13 01:02am
by Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman
Admiral Valdemar wrote:WTF?! That guy singlehandedly sow the seed of Asia?!
What do you mean, 'single
HANDedly'?
Posted: 2003-02-13 06:16am
by UltraViolence83
Ghengis is a fucking god (pun intended). To this day no other nation, not even the U.S.S.R. has held a larger single land mass. A prophecy said that since he was born with blood on his hands, he was destined to conquer the world. Since Asia has the most population, and so many people have that link, it may just come true one day, in a strange sort of way.
Friendly note to old-school gamers: download the Ghengis Khan II rom for SNES NOW! Great game!
Posted: 2003-02-13 03:40pm
by The Yosemite Bear
And his Genome was the dominant strand in the Sci-Fi villian Nanoon Sihgn Khan.
--plus--
in Warworld his descendants handed the Mootie Supermen their Aryan asses (Ha!, take that you Draka by another names)
Posted: 2003-02-13 03:55pm
by Dalton
My family's fairly sure that we and the Dalton gang share a common ancestry.
Posted: 2003-02-13 03:58pm
by Sea Skimmer
UltraViolence83 wrote:Ghengis is a fucking god (pun intended). To this day no other nation, not even the U.S.S.R. has held a larger single land mass. A prophecy said that since he was born with blood on his hands, he was destined to conquer the world. Since Asia has the most population, and so many people have that link, it may just come true one day, in a strange sort of way.
Friendly note to old-school gamers: download the Ghengis Khan II rom for SNES NOW! Great game!
However the Mongols didn't have the kind of firm central control Empires like the Soviet Union have had. They just had a huge web of people who paid tribute, but went about there day to day lives without interference.
Posted: 2003-02-13 05:09pm
by paladin
UltraViolence83 wrote:Ghengis is a fucking god (pun intended).
He IS the MAN!
Posted: 2003-02-13 07:41pm
by UltraViolence83
Sure it was a very loose empire, but I think it lasted longer than the pinkos due to its decentralized system. Example: Do whatever the hell you want, just pay us.
Posted: 2003-02-13 07:45pm
by Illuminatus Primus
Genghis Khan is also probably one of the, if not the greatest single mass-murdering despot in the last 1,000 years.
Don't give the bastard too much value.
Posted: 2003-02-13 07:55pm
by UltraViolence83
He was a fucking WARLORD. They are supposed to kill people. He also made a rule saying if any of his soldiers got injured in the back, that meant they were retreating, thus cowards, and were to be put to death.
Posted: 2003-02-13 08:07pm
by ben
Hot damn, now that guy is a Darwinian sucess. Is there a prize for doing this or that he already took it?
Posted: 2003-02-13 08:14pm
by Wicked Pilot
The Yosemite Bear wrote:I mean lets all jump in a boat & pillage England, just sounds so tempting.
The women shave there right?
Posted: 2003-02-13 08:16pm
by jaeger115
And I'm descended from Thomas Jefferson. Not that it matters...
Posted: 2003-02-13 08:18pm
by ArmorPierce
Finally decided to open this to read it. Yes Khan. They have a lot of history in their blood.
Posted: 2003-02-13 08:21pm
by EmperorMing
Wicked Pilot wrote:The Yosemite Bear wrote:I mean lets all jump in a boat & pillage England, just sounds so tempting.
The women shave there right?
What do they shave...?