Khan!!!!

A Mr. Tom Robinson of Florida has been identified as a direct descendent of Ghengis Khan by Bryan Sykes, a British geneticist who does that sort of thing.

I'm taking this with a grain of salt, as Ghengis Khan's burial place has never been found and we don't have a scrap of his DNA-- a point which is not lost on Dr. Sykes, who speaks airily of "assessments of probabilities." Mind you, this isn't the first time this has cropped up, as Douglas Adams pointed out in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Mr. L. Prosser was, as they say, only human. In other words he was a carbon-based life form descended from an ape. More specifically he was forty, fat and shabby and worked for the local council. Curiously enough, though he didn't know it, he was also a direct male-line descendant of Genghis Khan, though intervening generations and racial mixing had so juggled his genes that he had no discernible Mongoloid characteristics, and the only vestiges left in Mr. L. Prosser of his mighty ancestry were a pronounced stoutness about the tum and a predilection for little fur hats.