The 64 Maya Boys Buried Beneath Chichén Itzá — And The DNA Test That Found Two Pairs Of Identical Twins
The Hero Twin connection enriches the interpretation of the evidence.
It does not establish what happened or why.
The Kinship Findings
The genetic analysis of the 64 children went beyond sex determination to examine the biological relationships among the individuals.
This kind of analysis — kinship or relatedness analysis — works by comparing the genomes of different individuals and calculating how many genetic variants they share, and in what patterns.
Different degrees of biological relationship produce different statistical signatures in the shared genetic data.
First-degree relatives — parents and children, or full siblings — share approximately half of their genetic material through inheritance.