Friday, October 17, 2008

we are all of khan's children...

this is a bit of an older article, but i was just reading that 8% of ALL asian men are related to genghis khan.

From the times.co.uk:
"...a study in 2003 suggested that up to 16 million people worldwide — and 8 per cent of Asian men — were descended from Genghis Khan, and Professor Sykes decided to trawl through his database of approximately 25,000 male clients for a match.

The link is revealed by the Y chromosome, a packet of DNA that determines male sex, which is passed down from father to son. Men who share a Y chromosome are invariably descended from the same man at some point in the past, and the accumulation of mutations can be used to date the common ancestor. Women do not have a Y chromosome, so they cannot be tested in the same way, although millions are likely also to be descended from the warlord. "

he was a total badass and he can't go to the mall anymore.

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