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British Have Changed Little Since Ice Age, Gene Study Says
Or : "Red hair and bad teeth for everyone!"...
I wonder what it's like for France, for example? Probably more variations, as it is not an island. Still, there is probably a similar if lesser homogeneity and continuity, despite the multiculturalist and immigrationnist hype about Europe being "a continent of migrations". Well, that's about to change in the coming decades, but we're told it's for the best...
| Idiot study. We share 95% of our genome with chimps. Just exactly how much change did they expect to find? |
Despite invasions by Saxons, Romans, Vikings, Normans, and others, the genetic makeup of today's white Britons is much the same as it was 12,000 ago, a new book claims. In The Tribes of Britain, archaeologist David Miles says around 80 percent of the genetic characteristics of most white Britons have been passed down from a few thousand Ice Age hunters. Miles, research fellow at the Institute of Archaeology in Oxford, England, says recent genetic and archaeological evidence puts a new perspective on the history of the British people. "There's been a lot of arguing over the last ten years, but it's now more or less agreed that about 80 percent of Britons' genes come from hunter-gatherers who came in immediately after the Ice Age," Miles said.
Posted by: anonymous5089 2005-07-25 |
