Majingilane Coalition Male Lineage

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(05-30-2023, 05:42 AM)Mapokser Wrote: @Robot00 Yeah even if they were sucessful we'd never know, we could meet some of their descendents without realizing it.

Still I don't see how a strict male to male lineage is that important, take this Mangheni male for example, he shares as much DNA with the Mapogos as any son from M & T would. This Mangheni male, the older Kambulas, younger Mangheni pride generation and any young cubs from the 2 elder Manghenis are all Mapogo grandcubs regardless if they come from a female line, it literally makes no difference.

Another example, the 6 Kambula males, they come from 2 generation of female Mapogo descendents, still if there'd be a strict male line from M & T to a coalition nowadays, they would have exact the same genetic relation to Mapogos that Kambula males have.

Male or female, it doesn't matter at all.

It makes a slight difference.  The Y chromosome is only passed down the male line, and there are some traits you can only get from that genetic lineage, as well as diseases.  Plus, it is said that we get more gene expression from the paternal line, too.  Any sons/daughters from the Mapogos own sons, would have had different gene expressions and inheritances towards them...in general.  Tendency towards certain health issues and fitness levels are passed down and expressed more dominantly via the paternal line. 

But overall, it's not a huge difference that would take away from having sons vs. daughters....  The bottom line though, it's not a CLEAR inheritance pattern from grandparents to grandkids of a quarter (25%) for each, regardless of which side.  It's like the roll of the dice, that's why siblings can differ A LOT in appearance, as one takes more from the paternal mother's side, for example, and the other can take more from the paternal father's side..... (and that's just for the father's side...the mother's side can also be very skewed or only a little)    

We have no way of knowing what became of the 2 remaining sons of the 6 infamous lions.  People like to talk about how they disappeared "i.e. was poached" with zero evidence to back that up.  Thousands of lions remain anonymous in the KNP, therefore we know about 5% of them if they remain within sighting of lodges/vehicles, etc. at best.  Most of the lions are too wary and shy of human contact, so they would rather just remain out of view and run away after hearing any noise. Reply