{"id":63298,"date":"2012-02-12T17:03:49","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T01:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=15739"},"modified":"2012-02-12T17:03:49","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T01:03:49","slug":"kkkhhhaaannn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2012\/02\/12\/kkkhhhaaannn\/","title":{"rendered":"Kkkhhhaaannn!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My post, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2010\/08\/1-in-200-men-direct-descendants-of-genghis-khan\/\">1 in 200 men direct descendants of Genghis Khan<\/a>, is linked up somewhere almost every week. Why is it so popular? No idea. But one thing that has come to mind: <b>we&#8217;ve come a long way in since the early 2000s in assembling databases of human scientific genealogies.<\/b> Soon enough a substantial proportion of the males in the human race will have their Y chromosomes typed. What proportion of these individuals are going to be part of a &#8220;star-shaped phylogeny,&#8221; implying a radiation from a single individual relatively recently in the past? My own suspicion is a great deal. The Khan lineage is simply a relatively recent one as these things go. How did <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Haplogroup_R1a_(Y-DNA)#R1a1a_.28R-M17_or_R-M198.29\">R1a1<\/a> come to be so widespread?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wRnSnfiUI54\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GeneExpressionBlog\/~4\/empOYe-BDX0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;ve come a long way in since the early 2000s in assembling databases of human scientific genealogies. Soon enough a substantial proportion [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,515],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthroplogy","category-genghis-khan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63298","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=63298"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63647,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63298\/revisions\/63647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}