Leonardo da Vinci’s Y chromosome shared by living family descendants

19 bookofjoe 7 9/13/2025, 11:55:58 PM phys.org ↗

Comments (7)

divbzero · 5m ago
The Y chromosome is useful for tracing male ancestry because it passes from generation to generation with minimal recombination.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_chromosome#Recombination_inh...

catlikesshrimp · 1h ago
It is interesting that the average age of conception in the series is 33 years (21 generations in 700 years) It seems an old age, historically.

The age of coming of women in my country was 15 years old. I think it was common in Latin America. The age of consent is now 16 yo. In Colombian is 14 yo, I think.

apothegm · 16m ago
This is the Y chromosome. On average men start families later than women do.
p1esk · 1h ago
What was the average age of conception for the last child?
lif · 1h ago
tl;dr:

"15 direct male-line descendants related genealogically to both Leonardo's father and to his half-brother"

jojomodding · 28m ago
They haven't proven any genetic relationships between the currently alive and the ancient entombed bodies yet. So far they only confirmed that the currently alive people all share a straight-line male ancestor.
ttoinou · 1m ago
What would be missing to make the link between those two facts ? Im beginner in biology