From the theconversation.com article linked in a sibling comment: > Our team generated data from more than 80 people, mostly elite individuals buried in the ri

From the theconversation.com article linked in a sibling comment: > Our team generated data from more than 80 people, mostly elite individuals buried in the rich centers of the stone towns. We will need to wait for future work to understand whether their genetic inheritance differed from people without their high status. Considering that the ruling class in a society often genetically differs from the population in general, it seems that these findings may not have as surprising implications as it seems initially.