You have about 4096 ancestors of that generation and about 200,000 relatives of your generation descended from that generation. But that's just probability, so it could be that you have millions of relatives descended from that generation, or you could be one of not many left - an endangered species.
Genghis Khan apparently has umpty millions of descendants with something like 7% of men able to trace their Y chromosome back to him. Google knows:
<Zerjal et al. [2003] [6] identified a Y-chromosomal lineage present in about 8% of the men in a large region of Asia (about 0.5% of the men in the world). The paper suggests that the pattern of variation within the lineage is consistent with a hypothesis that it originated in Mongolia about 1,000 years ago (thus several generations prior to the birth of Genghis). Such a spread would be too rapid to have occurred by genetic drift, and must therefore be the result of selection. The authors propose that the lineage is carried by likely male-line descendants of Genghis Khan and his close male relatives, and that it has spread through social selection. Both due to the power that Khan and his direct descendants held and a society which allowed one man to have many children through having multiple wives and widespread rape in conquered cities.[7]
According to Family Tree DNA, Genghis Khan is believed to have belonged to Haplogroup C3.
The 25 Marker Y-DNA Profile of Genghis Khan released by Family Tree DNA is:
DYS number 385a 385b 388 389i 389ii 390 391 392 393 394 426 437 439 447 448 449 454 455 458 459a 459b 464a 464b 464c 464d
Haplotype 12 13 14 13 29 25 10 11 13 16 11 14 10 26 22 27 12 11 18 8 8 11 11 12 16>
Since the father of all non-Africans left Africa only about 25,000 years ago, the selection process has obviously been very rapid.
These days, women conduct the eugenics programs, getting rid of unsuitable DNA by the ton, eliminating them from the gene pool. In the past, death by conquest was a major method for eliminating genes but it was the male method of bulk murder of opposing gangs.
With 6 billion of us now alive, the eugenics programme is proceeding faster than ever with more DNA mutations being created and selection of the good ones being very quick.
No wonder the Flynn Effect is so rapid.
Women are merciless.
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