> "Whatever psychological properties Gengis Khan had, they (probably) made him extremely reproductively successful."
There's an entire industry about this: "By the classical definitions of evolutionary fitness, Genghis Khan is among history's elite. The Mongolian ruler reportedly sired hundreds of children with a great variety of women—a …
> "Whatever psychological properties Gengis Khan had, they (probably) made him extremely reproductively successful."
There's an entire industry about this: "By the classical definitions of evolutionary fitness, Genghis Khan is among history's elite. The Mongolian ruler reportedly sired hundreds of children with a great variety of women—a feat of genetic propagation which echoes even today in the 8% of Asian men who still retain a nearly identical version of Genghis's Y chromosome."
> "Whatever psychological properties Gengis Khan had, they (probably) made him extremely reproductively successful."
There's an entire industry about this: "By the classical definitions of evolutionary fitness, Genghis Khan is among history's elite. The Mongolian ruler reportedly sired hundreds of children with a great variety of women—a feat of genetic propagation which echoes even today in the 8% of Asian men who still retain a nearly identical version of Genghis's Y chromosome."
But once that was discovered, people have been hunting for other such men. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/other-men-who-left-huge-genetic-legacies-likes-genghis-khan-180954052/ "Ten Other Men Left Genetic Legacies So Huge They Rival Genghis Khan’s; A new study shows that 10 other men founded large Y-chromosome lineages"
Very interesting link! Too bad we don't know anything about most of the superspreaders.