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
You have 2 parents, 4 grandparents, 8 great-grandparents. It doubles every generation. It doesn’t take many generations to run out of people to not be your relatives.
Using that basic math, you’d have almost 270 million ancestors from 29 generations ago, that’s about 600 years. That’s the same number of people there were on the whole planet that long ago. You might not want to think of the overlaps.
Khan was around 1200AD, so its not much of a stretch to say that in all likelihood, most people from that region probably have him somewhere in their family tree, at least once.
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