The Genes of War Lords 

The Genes of War Lords

From the NYT June 7--just made it into the TO Star today:

"Take Genghis Khan's Y chromosome, which is now found in 16 million men in Central Asia. It started as a single copy from the man himself in the 12th century. What drove this? Well, when he conquered a territory, he killed the men and systematically inseminated the most attractive women....My guess is that the Y chromosome of every living man has spent at least one generation in the testes of a warlord."
-- human genetics professor Bryan Sykes.

It is almost unbelievable that science confirms something that Nietzsche might have said.