*European and West/South Asian ancestry
This may explain why humans are so messed up, so patriarchal and with such strong abusive tendencies existing in men.
The 5% of human men that survived would have been the most aggressive and warlike, the most passionate about killing and dominating.
So many living people are descended from these surviving men.
Other References:
Journal Articles:
- Karmin, M., Saag, L., Vicente, M., Wilson Sayres, M. A., Järve, M., Talas, U. G., … & Metspalu, M. (2015). A recent bottleneck of Y chromosome diversity coincides with a global change in culture. Science, 349(6245), 452-455.
- Zeng, T. C., Aw, A. J., & Feldman, M. W. (2018). Cultural hitchhiking and competition between patrilineal kin groups explain the post-Neolithic Y-chromosome bottleneck. 1 Nature communications, 9(1), 2077. 1. arkeofili.com arkeofili.com
- Guyon, L., Guez, J., Toupance, B., Heyer, E., & Chaix, R. (2024). Patrilineal segmentary systems provide a peaceful explanation for the post-Neolithic Y-chromosome bottleneck. *Nature…source 15(1), 2672.
Online News Articles:
ScienceAlert. (2018, May 29). Warring Patrilineal Clans May Explain a Mysterious Event in Human History. https://www.sciencealert.com/neolithic-y-chromosome-bottleneck-warring-patrilineal-clans
Stanford News Service. (2018, May 24). War, clan structure may explain odd biological event. https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2018/05/war-clan-structure-explain-odd-biological-event
Live Science. (2018, May 29). Warring clans caused ancient population bottleneck, study suggests. https://www.livescience.com/62754-warring-clans-caused-population-bottleneck.html
Kevin Cann
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2/17/2025