y chromosome

This hand-wrought, extemporaneous and therefore unofficial war memorial is on Clement near 44th in San Francisco.

In the shadows of The Veterans Hospital there.

It's quite beautiful.

A better picture would show the monument's inscription, dedicated to our veterans who...give their lives with faith and courage fighting the cruel barbarian enemies so we can live in freedom.

According to a fairly recent study published in the "American Journal of Human Genetics", approximately 8% of the men living in the the region of the former Mongel empire of the warrior Genghis Khan, carry nearly identical y-chromosomes. This translates to .05 percent of the male population in the world, or roughly 16 million descendents living today.