How is it that nearly 20% of all Asians are related to Ghengis Khan? I feel like they mean the mongols, but every article I read says Khan.

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How is it that nearly 20% of all Asians are related to Ghengis Khan? I feel like they mean the mongols, but every article I read says Khan.

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Genghis Khan died 800 years ago and had a lot of children. If each one of those went on to have a new generation every 40 years (way too high) then each individual child would be the ancestor of a little over 1,000,000 kids by now. That’s a conservative estimate. Now expand that by a shit ton and also assume that they produced new generations faster than 40 years.

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