01-21-2007, 02:37 PM
Quote:In fact, as I have posted before, there is no genetic evidence to support anything like an ethnic cleansing, genetic studies seems to be very heavily influenced by politics in Britain, and totally opposed conclusions have been draught from the same data. The real problem is that while there is a degree of genetic variation in a West/East axis, it is not very significant, there is nothing like the genetic wall we see across the Gibraltar Straits, Anglo-Saxons are not a clearly differentiated genetic population as were the Arabic conquers in Spain, where Arabic genetic print can be easily traced. If we take a world wide genetic map, the whole of Britain fits into a “Western European” genetic province. Eastern England population genetically is more closely related to Northern France than to Denmark
But Aryaman, that's hardly surprising, now is it. After 1,500 years of
intermingling due to aculturation between Britons and Anglo-Saxons
living in England and (especially in the last 200 years, since the industrial
revolution) economic migration for better jobs within the British
Isles, you should not be expecting to see the regional genetic variation
between East and West which would originally have existed, should you.
There might conceivably have been an enormous genetic cline between
East and West in the year 500, which, due to the above factors of
evening-out, might be scarcely visible today. Which is what you are
saying is the case.
Ambrosius / Mike
"Feel the fire in your bones."
