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Renaissance

Leonardo´s relatives live still today

Genetics opens new ways for genealogy

by Linda Grünberg     | 09/15/2021

Do you actually know who your ancestors were in the Renaissance Age? You may be an ancestor or relative of kings and artists and you don’t know. Thanks to genetics, that could soon be changed.

So far, genealogy has been more likely a job for historians in dusty archives, but now new genealogists are appearing on the stage of science in ultra-pure laboratories: human geneticists.

In the case of Leonardo da Vinci, they also had to improve and expand a few things and there are 14 relatives still living today – not descendants, because Leonardo had no children what is best known – none of them are universal geniuses, but quite “normal” people .

Curiously, it should be noted that although Leonardo’s reproductive rate is reduced to zero, his genetor, on the other hand, had produced another 22 half-brothers into the world in addition to him.

Already interested to get more? Then just read next to the article on Eurekaalert, which is linked here. And for those who want to know exactly, there is also the scientific article by the researchers in the journal “Human Evolution”, which has almost 80 pages.

Vezzosi, Alessandro / Agnese Sabato: The New Genealogical Tree of the Da Vinci Family for Leonardo’s DNA. Ancestors and descendants in direct male line down to the present XXI generation , in: Human Evolution 36 (2021), S. 1-90
http://www.pontecorboli.com/digital/OpenAccess/2021_12_Vezzosi-Sabato_The-New-Genealogical-Tree-of-the-Da-Vinci-Family-for-Leonardos-DNA.pdf

Leonardo Da Vinci: New family tree spans 21 generations, 690 years, finds 14 living male descendants

Researchers have documented 21 generations of Leonardo Da Vinci’s family covering 690 years and identified 14 living male family descendants.
The family tree is now longer (21 generations vs. 19 in 2016), broader (5 branches vs. 1), larger (14 living male direct descendants vs. 2), far more detailed…

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