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Those 1.5 million descendants are just the officially-recognized ones. Almost everyone living in the world today is directly descended from Confucius, and Mohammed, and Caesar Augustus, and Buddha, and almost everyone who had children 1200 years ago or more.
It actually makes more sense if the family tree is only men. A female descendant (76 generations later) of Confucius has little in common with Confucius in the genetic sense. A male descendant shares his Y chromosome.
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