Half of Western European men descended from one Bronze Age ‘king’

This is such a weird article. Literally anybody from 4000 years ago that has any living descendants is going to be a common ancestor of most of the planet. That's just math. Whoever this person was probably wasn't special and probably wasn't a king.

Eventually you are either the ancestor of everyone on earth or the ancestor of no-one.

There was similar news a few years ago relating how a large percentage of the world is descended from Genghis Khan:<p>* <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.discovermagazine.com&#x2F;gnxp&#x2F;2010&#x2F;08&#x2F;1-in-200-men-direct-descendants-of-genghis-khan" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.discovermagazine.com&#x2F;gnxp&#x2F;2010&#x2F;08&#x2F;1-in-200-men-...</a>

Coincidentally, I was just reading about how Genghis Khan was supposed to have directly lineage to 1 in 200 of world&#x27;s male population. That study was in 2010.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.discovermagazine.com&#x2F;gnxp&#x2F;2010&#x2F;08&#x2F;1-in-200-men-direct-descendants-of-genghis-khan" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.discovermagazine.com&#x2F;gnxp&#x2F;2010&#x2F;08&#x2F;1-in-200-men-...</a>

The Indo-European expansions?