[xJones]

The professor of clinical sociomedical sciences at Oxford University said the Celts of Western Scotland, Wales, Ireland and Cornwall are descended from an ancient people living on the Atlantic coast while Britain was still attached to mainland Europe, while the English are more closely related to the Germanic peoples of the interior. As evidence he cites genetic data showing the Celts are more closely related to the Basque people of south west France and the Celts of Brittany and Spain, while the English are closer to the Germans descended from the Anglo Saxons... said Britons are descended from the original settlers, rather than later invasions, and as such were already split by the western divide.

Well, if doesn't make perfect sense, I don't what does. Thank you, Dr. Oppenheimer.

[MegaSilver]

How is this news? This was what I had always read in the books...

[SunkenCiv]

Like a lot of English folks, he repudiates migration as playing a role in the genealogy of peoples -- and he lives on one of the most invaded places on Earth. Ultimately, I think it's just another English repudiation of the Celtic roots of Britain. As one wag wrote of a similar piece of work, eventually the trend of British scholarship on origins will posit the evolution of British ancestors from indigenous reindeer.