09-21-2006, 06:25 AM
"Although Celtic countries have previously thought of themselves as being genetically different from the English, this is emphatically not the case," Professor Sykes said.
This is significant, because the idea of a separate Celtic race is deeply ingrained in our political structure, and has historically been very divisive. Culturally, the view of a separate race holds water. But from a genetic point of view, Britain is emphatically not a divided nation."
That seems to be the main political conclusion, and I suspect there was a political agenda behind it.
I would be interested in knowing what haplogroups/haplotypes are represented in those fancy names, but the work, or at least the press commentaries, don´t look very scientific
This is significant, because the idea of a separate Celtic race is deeply ingrained in our political structure, and has historically been very divisive. Culturally, the view of a separate race holds water. But from a genetic point of view, Britain is emphatically not a divided nation."
That seems to be the main political conclusion, and I suspect there was a political agenda behind it.
I would be interested in knowing what haplogroups/haplotypes are represented in those fancy names, but the work, or at least the press commentaries, don´t look very scientific
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