The all-male profile, the 25 percent close-relative figure, the presence of two pairs of identical twins — these are not random outcomes.

They reflect criteria of selection.

Understanding those criteria requires understanding the ritual logic of the specific practice this chultún represents, and that understanding requires historical and epigraphic work that goes beyond genomics.

The question of whether the selection of related children or of twins was a conscious, explicit criterion for inclusion in this ritual context, or whether it was an emergent consequence of other selection processes, remains open.

If families were expected to contribute male children to this ritual, and if those families were closely interrelated, the high kinship rate might be a consequence of family structure rather than of deliberate selection for relatedness.