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'''Genghis Khan''' is the most [[reproductive success|reproductively successful]] human male to have ever lived. The man was a tyrannical ruler, responsible for the deaths of up to 40 million people. Genghis came from a privileged family, but as a boy Genghis's father was killed by a rival tribe, their family descended into extreme poverty, and Ghengis became hellbent on revenge. Genghis was extremely [[Charisma|charismatic]], able to | '''Genghis Khan''' or '''Temujin''' is arguably the most [[reproductive success|reproductively successful]] human male to have ever lived. The man was a tyrannical ruler, responsible for the deaths of up to 40 million people. Genghis came from a privileged family, but as a boy Genghis's father was killed by a rival tribe, their family descended into extreme poverty, Ghengis was briefly enslaved and later escaped thanks to the assistance of a poor servant family (who he presumably impressed enough to make them give him their aid), and Ghengis became hellbent on revenge. Genghis was extremely [[Charisma|charismatic]], able to be awarded the title of khan (or chief) by 20 years old (solidifying his rule of all of Mongolia in his early-mid 40s), implying ridiculously hi testosterone, extremely high IQ, extraordinary attractive looks and [[game|behavior]]. | ||
Considering the most reproductively successful man's behavior. Women and or men's attraction to dark triad traits in the opposite sex, is a rational [[reproductive success|reproductively strategy]] to produce hi fertility sons. Even if most of these sons within a dark triad | ==Conquests and character== | ||
Genghis Khan was a firm believer in logic, rationale, and meritocracy. For example, Genghis killed his older half-brother to establish leadership and dominance within the family, and would recruit top soldiers from other armies. This is in contrast to the Big Man system of the tallest guy gets the job, regardless of ability that was in place at the time, or the kinship system of the Mongols which places family ties above al | |||
He conquered and despoiled large parts of northern China, central Asia, and utterly destroyed the powerful Turkic Khwarazmian Empire, which governed some of the most important regions of the Silk Road, despoiling the country, killing millions of people, and burning whole cities to the ground, in response to the murder of envoys Genghis had sent in an effort to establish trade ties. In one of his most brutal deeds, when the wealthy city of Urgench (in modern Turkmenistan) was conquered by the Mongols, Genghis ordered the enslavement of the women, children and artisans of the city, and had the rest of the population of the city executed in a single session. Some figures claim up to 1.2 million inhabitants were massacred. | |||
==Claims of being the greatest reproductive success== | |||
Genghis Khan's descendants were known as the '''Genghisids''', and they continued to rule areas that had once been under the sway of the Mongols up to the 19th century, when the last major Genghisid ruler, the Khan of Bukhara, was deposed. | |||
There were several highly prestigious figures/dynasties that claimed descent from Genghis khan; The Ottoman Turkish ruling dynasty claimed descent from Genghis Khan through his oldest son, Jochi, through one of his Muslim Tatar descendants in the Crimea. A Russian Orthodox saint, Theodore the Black, was also descended from Genghis Khan thanks to his marriage to a Christian Mongol princess. Many other Russian rulers and princes were possibly descended from Genghis Khan. | |||
Timur, the infamous central Asian conqueror, also claimed direct descent from Genghis Khan, though this is highly disputed by historians. If true, the Mughal dynasty which ruled much of India for 200 years was also descended from Genghis Khan. | |||
Many genetic researchers have attempted to infer Genghis Khan's haplogroup to determine how many living descendants he and his ancestors have. Zerjal et al. (2003) claimed that 8% of people in "a large region of Asian" were likely descended from Genghis khan, 0.5% of the world's total population. <ref>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1180246/</ref> This finding has been hotly disputed however, and recent evidence (Wei et al. 2018) could find no evidence that the universal ruler himself belonged to this haplogroup. | |||
==Dark triad commentary== | |||
Considering the most reproductively successful man's behavior. Women and or men's attraction to dark triad traits in the opposite sex, is a rational [[reproductive success|reproductively strategy]] to produce hi fertility sons. Even if most of these sons within a dark triad population ends up a [[GDE|genetic failure]], the one or few sons that succeed make up for the losses. | |||
Why human beings across time and culture view genetically adaptive behavior as evil or for the more religious among us sinful, remains an unsolved mystery. | Why human beings across time and culture view genetically adaptive behavior as evil or for the more religious among us sinful, remains an unsolved mystery. | ||
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* [[Adverse effects of inceldom]] | * [[Adverse effects of inceldom]] | ||
* [[Reproductive success]] | * [[Reproductive success]] | ||
==References== | |||