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Fox News
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Fox News
You Got Suckered
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Times
21-05-2025
- Science
- Times
Leonardo da Vinci was a genius. New DNA tests could finally explain why
Five centuries after Leonardo da Vinci sketched flying machines and painted the Mona Lisa, scientists may be edging closer to revealing how his genetics contributed to his genius. The Renaissance master, the illegitimate son of a Florentine notary, left no known children when he died in France in 1519. However, for the past decade a project has been under way to try to recover a complete map of his DNA. Through painstaking research in parish records and family archives, researchers believe they have tracked down 15 male descendants of his father's line. Six of them agreed to genetic testing, which showed that they shared the same Y chromosome — a portion of DNA that is passed down from father to son virtually unchanged. Their
