Posted on 04/30/2016 2:15:17 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Half of Western European men are descended from one Bronze Age 'king' who sired a dynasty of elite nobles which spread throughout Europe, a new study has shown.
The monarch, who lived around 4,000 years ago, is likely to have been one of the earliest chieftains to take power in the continent...
It is likely his power stemmed from advances in technology such as metal working and wheeled transport which enabled organised warfare for the first time.
Although it is not known who he was, or where he lived, scientists say he must have existed because of genetic variation in today's European populations.
Dr Chris Tyler-Smith, from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, said... "Half of the Western European population is descended from just one man. We can only speculate as to what happened. The best explanation is that they may have resulted from advances in technology that could be controlled by small groups of men.
"Wheeled transport, metal working and organised warfare are all candidate explanations that can now be investigated further."
The study analysed sequence differences between the Y chromosomes of more than 1200 men from 26 populations around the world using data generated by the 1000 Genomes Project...
The team used the data to build a tree of the 1200 Y chromosomes. It shows how they are all related to one another. As expected, they all descend from a single man who lived approximately 190,000 years ago.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
The concept of Mitochondrial Eve was based on a wrong idea that mitochondria is inherited solely from the mother side. It has been shown that on some rare occasions it comes from the father too, so the Eve calculation is faulty and cannot be corrected at this time.
I’ll say. That guy sure got around.
Not sure if you are aware of this website, but if you are able to digest information objectively, I recommend it.
4000 years ago is 2000 BC
The horse drawn chariot was just coming into use
Polygamy allowed one man to create enormous amount of
descendants in just few generations
Chariot borne warriors to advance much quicker and farther than earlier migrations
Corresponds with the mythical coming of the “ARYANS”
Supposedly much of Central Asia is descended from Gengis Khan
“It’s good to be King.”
‘And have your own world.
It helps to make friends,
It’s good to meet girls.
A sweet little queen who can’t run away
It’s good to be king, whatever it pays’
Petty..
The other half are descended from his cross-dressing son. Prince Wuss of Mangina.
Horndog.
What percentage of American Mormons can trace their ancestry to Brigham Young?
Bronze Age Kings. Good name for a Celtic rock band.
What is best in life?
To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women!
” We can only speculate as to what happened. “
Might have something to do with sex.
And still other tests show fully modern humans at 250,000 years ago ...
Some chicks really dig older guys.
He was Irish of course!
I was thinking traveling salesman - there are a lot of farmers' daughters. Wheeled transport would have given the first salesman the means to travel widely, while metal working gave him a product in high demand to peddle.
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Hey Joe!
U da guy who works 40 years to make what Hitlary makes for 1/2 dozen speeches?
Her signs say she is ‘working for us’.....LOL !
You forgot a very important part: “...to spill his entrails upon the ground.....”
Indeed. However, we might be part of a Mongol linage:
“In 2003 a groundbreaking historical genetics paper reported results which indicated that a substantial proportion of men in the world are direct line descendants of Genghis Khan. By direct line, I mean that they carry Y chromosomes which seem to have come down from an individual who lived approximately 1,000 years ago. As Y chromosomes are only passed from father to son, that would mean that the Y is a record of one’s patrilineage. Genghis Khan died ~750 years ago, so assuming 25 years per generation, you get about 30 men between the present and that period. In more quantitative terms, ~10% of the men who reside within the borders of the Mongol Empire as it was at the death of Genghis Khan may carry his Y chromosome, and so ~0.5% of men in the world, about 16 million individuals alive today, do so.”
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