#15: Breeding Our Way Out

Genghis Khan has 16 million direct descendants: supposedly 8% of the population of the territory he conquered, in a long band from Outer Manchuria to Iran. But his legacy is homeopathic: the Uzbeks looks like Uzbeks, the Kazakhs look Kazakh, and they sell kebab or mine fluorspar or build Daewoos, presumably as they would whether they carried the Khan’s C*(xC3c) Y-chromosomal haplogroup or not.…