Re:1 in 200 of men alive today are direct descendants of Gen...
by Someone on Saturday August 06, 2011 @09:35AM
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The obvious one is a difference in branching factor. Women can have ten children, and I would expect many more men than women die childless (not only because more than half of all newborns are male)
Re:1 in 200 of men alive today are direct descendants of Gen...
by jodrellblank on Saturday August 06, 2011 @05:24PM
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I remember reading a long article/blog entry once, and it claimed that we living humans are descended from 80% of all the women who ever lived but only 40% of all the men.
Haven't been able to find it again, though.
Re:1 in 200 of men alive today are direct descendants of Gen...
by salemh on Sunday August 07, 2011 @12:14AM
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Hrm, this may help you / someone else get closer. This also relates to the 2,000 - 5,000 year subject:
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.62....
from Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=all+living+hum...
Note that the title assumes just patrilinear descent, so any man that may have had only daughters will not pass on the Y chromosome, though he will still have a non-patrilinear lineage (carried by both sons and daughters).
BTW, what are the main structural differences between strictly male and strictly female lineages?