{"id":41147,"date":"2011-05-31T14:06:20","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T22:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=12118"},"modified":"2011-05-31T14:06:20","modified_gmt":"2011-05-31T22:06:20","slug":"mediterranean-men-on-the-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/31\/mediterranean-men-on-the-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Mediterranean men on the move"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.researchblogging.org\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ResearchBlogging.org\" src=\"http:\/\/www.researchblogging.org\/public\/citation_icons\/rb2_large_gray.png\" style=\"border:0;\"\/><\/a>Seriously, sometimes history matches fiction a lot more than we&#8217;d have expected, or wished. In the early 2000s the Oxford geneticist Bryan Sykes observed a pattern of discordance between the spatial distribution of male mediated ancestry on the nonrecombinant Y chromosome (NRY) and female mediated ancestry in the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). To explains this he offered a somewhat sensationalist narrative to the press about possible repeated instances of male genocide against lineage groups who lost in conflicts.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a portion of the book of Numbers in the Bible:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>15 &#8211; And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive?<\/p>\n<p>16 &#8211; Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD.<\/p>\n<p>17 &#8211; <strong>Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>18 &#8211; <strong>But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Then there is the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Rape_of_the_Sabine_Women\">rape of the Sabine women<\/a>. The ethnogenesis of the mestizo and mulatto populations of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seriously, sometimes history matches fiction a lot more than we&#8217;d have expected, or wished. In the early 2000s the Oxford geneticist Bryan Sykes observed a pattern of discordance between the spatial distribution of male mediated ancestry on the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,287,9,194,1407,4,82,865,793],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture","category-ancient-dna","category-anthroplogy","category-archaeogenetics","category-europe-genetics","category-genetics","category-genomics","category-neolithic","category-neolithic-revolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41147"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41795,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41147\/revisions\/41795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}