I found this line to be quite interesting:
” Geneticists have discovered that most European men descend from just a handful of Bronze Age forefathers, due to a ‘population explosion’ several thousand years ago.”
What does ‘several thousand years’ mean and what does this mean?
For me, this sounds like a relatively RECENT history.
We usually measure human ancestry in hundreds of thousands of years.
Bronze Age is a somewhat inexact term, but generally refers to something like 2500 to 4000 years ago, or perhaps a little more.
What this evidence shows is that a relatively small number of warriors rolled in, killed the men or at least kept them from breeding and impregnated enough women to keep the population growing.
In relatively primitive societies, captive or subdued males are simply a threat. But you can always find a use for captive females.