The Fool wrote: > > Genetically, I think it was that chinese people are about 8% decended from > Khan. At least that is what the last thing I read about it said. > No, it's stronger than that: 8% of some oriental folk [not chinese, probably mongolian but also other places] descend from Gengis Khan in _direct_ patrilineal line.
> I think your math is off. Otherwise there would be a much more even > distribution of alleles. > But after only 6 generations, there may be no genetic trace of the ancestor. BTW, humans are much more like to each other than most other species [or so I heard], suggesting that as recently as, say, 100,000 years ago Humanity _almost_ became extinct, surviving by just a few couples. WARNING!!! OFF-TOPIC!!! I imagine that this could be a start point for an Uplift story or RPG-adventure: track which Alien race abducted the humans and thought that it exterminated all humans on Earth. Alberto Monteiro _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
