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.
In: 1751
I looked it up some time ago because the whole popsci podcast-style “Ghengis Khan literally raping millions of women” thing doesn’t make any sense, and it’s mostly just a single study from 2003 full of conjecture and rumours, with huge asterisks everywhere. After all, **we don’t have his body to even get samples of his genetic material in the first place.**
Modern research doesn’t make any such claims and there has been some evidence contradicting this factoid.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descent_from_Genghis_Khan#DNA_evidence
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