I fail to see how the portraits of Edward IV depict a chinless man. If anything, his chin is unusually round and prominent. He has a little roll of fat underneath it (which gets progressively larger as time goes by) but other than that, in his early portraits at least, he looks youthful and handsome.
Here is a painting of the young Henry VIII. He looks a little like Paul Dano, actually (unfortunate victim of Daniel Plainview’s bowling pin in There Will Be Blood.) Nothing at all like that guy who plays him on the TV show supposedly about “the Tudors,” which I have never watched but seen ads for online.
I didn’t say he was chinless. His chin is placed too far back. Draw a line from his forehead to his chin. That line slants back toward his body. The chin should be directly below or slightly forward of his forehead.
I don’t think so. He had a few wives and and handful of sons (daughters generally unknown) and judging from the rest of his personality would not have cared about sexual conquest. (Note: a lot of what Westerners believe about GK is about as far off the mark as you can imagine.)
It’s likely that many central Asians would claim direct patrilineal descent from GK but there’s no way to prove that – genes might show a connection but wouldn’t show unbroken male lineage. It’s likely that 10 percent of people on Earth today have GK as an ancestor, which would also be true of anyone who had four children and a dozen grandchildren that long ago – this link can explain the math.
My understanding is that there is a characteristic factor on the Y-chromosome, which can be passed only from father to son, that is connected to Genghis Khan.
They can’t be certain it was GK, as nobody knows where he’s buried and thus nobody’s got a DNA sample from the horde-meister. But basically you have the gist — it’s a unique mutation on the y chomosome appearing about 1000 years ago in an area congruent with the Silk Road/area of Mongol invasion
Right. And notice that 21 of 26 ancestors are descendants from Philip and Joanna. The last time an external bloodline was introduced was several generations before Carlos’ birth.
