jueves, diciembre 22, 2005

vos descendés de Genghis?

Successful male gene lines, though, can be very successful indeed. Students of animal behaviour refer to the top male in a group as the “alpha” [...] And there were few males more alpha in their behaviour than Genghis Khan, a man reported to have had about 500 wives and concubines, not to mention the sexual opportunities that come with conquest. It is probably no coincidence, therefore, that one man in every 12 of those who live within the frontiers of what was once the Mongol empire (and, indeed, one in 200 of all men alive today) have a stretch of DNA on their Y-chromosomes that dates back to the time and birthplace of the great Khan.

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