Category Archives: Genghis Khan

The Golden Horde wasn’t barbarous, it created the modern world

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Recently there was a somewhat stupid “controversy” on Twitter where someone tried to get “Genghis Khan canceled.” It was mostly a joke but illustrated an important fact: it is hard to deny the reality of the brutality of Genghis Khan’s conquests. Part of the reason is that the Mongols themselves are not shy about what […]

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Literally hundred of thousands of people have read my post, 1 in 200 men direct descendants of Genghis Khan, since 2010. It was based on the paper The Genetic Legacy of the Mongols*, which reported that one particular Y chromosomal lineage was very common in Central Asia, and, that it exhibited hallmarks of explosive growth […]

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My post, 1 in 200 men direct descendants of Genghis Khan, is linked up somewhere almost every week. Why is it so popular? No idea. But one thing that has come to mind: we’ve come a long way in since the early 2000s in assembling databases of human scientific genealogies. Soon enough a substantial proportion […]

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Chinese Scientists Announce the First Complete Sequencing of Mongolian Genome: In this study, the DNA sample was from a male adult who belongs to the Mongolian “Royal Family” and is the 34th generation descendant of Genghis Khan. “The sample is very valuable for the study with a full record of family pedigree and no background […]

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