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Scottish people's DNA study could 'rewrite nation's history'
The Guardian (UK) ^ | 8-14-2012 | Charlotte Higgins

Posted on 08/22/2012 7:05:20 AM PDT by Renfield

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To: blam

DNA...Scotland...ping


21 posted on 08/22/2012 7:54:44 AM PDT by Tainan (Cogito, ergo conservatus sum)
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To: Celtic Conservative

“One researcher that I can recall noticed structural similarities between some Celtic and Indian Musical forms.”

Well, the bagpipes didn’t come from Europe, that is for sure. They originated in the Middle East.


22 posted on 08/22/2012 7:57:32 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Renfield
Evidence of African, Arabian, south-east Asian and Siberian ancestry in Scotland,

Hmmmmm .....


23 posted on 08/22/2012 7:57:47 AM PDT by Malone LaVeigh
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To: DManA
Is this science or a multi-culti fantasy? Probably science under a big media veneer of multi-culti spin.

There were lots of waves of migration into the British Isles. I would guess the Romans brought in a diverse set of genes, both with their armies, and the various traders from various places who followed them.

24 posted on 08/22/2012 7:59:30 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (A deep-fried storm is coming, Mr Obama.)
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To: DManA

DNA is Okay, But they weren’t multi-cultural at least prior to 100 years ago. Anyone else from around the world that settled there Assimilated into the scottish culture becasue they HAD to because scottish culture gave them the tools to survive in scotland. The same way european immigrants moved into American and assimilated into the Newly formed English/American culture within a generation or two.


25 posted on 08/22/2012 8:06:21 AM PDT by GraceG
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To: Renfield
Too funny !

"Not every analysis of DNA has delivered welcome results. DNA analysis on Moffat himself – a proud Scottish Borders man – showed that his ancestry was English. "We don't offer counselling for that," he said."
26 posted on 08/22/2012 8:08:44 AM PDT by stylin19a (Obama -> Ransom "Rance" Stoddard)
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To: njslim
I've seen pictures, Mongolians with curly red hair and freckles! What a hoot!

CC

27 posted on 08/22/2012 8:08:49 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (Q: how did you find America? A: turn left at Greenland)
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To: GraceG

Good point.


28 posted on 08/22/2012 8:09:32 AM PDT by DManA
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To: DManA
Mutts are the healthiest and be nicest creatures.

I'm a mutt, my kids are mutts, my dogs are mutts, and damn-good looking, if I may say.

Bill Murray said it best: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZ-ru03J2OQ

29 posted on 08/22/2012 8:10:19 AM PDT by tsomer
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To: PapaBear3625

well according to some experts raping and pillaging won’t produce offspring...the woman’s body shuts down...


30 posted on 08/22/2012 8:15:10 AM PDT by rolling_stone
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To: Celtic Conservative

There is no doubt ancient people really got around:

http://www.meshrep.com/PicOfDay/mummies/mummies.htm


31 posted on 08/22/2012 8:21:00 AM PDT by DManA
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To: rolling_stone

Geez, thanks ... Beat me to it. Yes, all the genetic diversity is ONLY from consensual sex. Or women who enjoyed being raped ...


32 posted on 08/22/2012 8:22:21 AM PDT by tanknetter
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To: Renfield

If it’s not Scottish it’s CRAP!


33 posted on 08/22/2012 8:24:16 AM PDT by TigersEye (dishonorabledisclosure.com - OPSEC (give them support))
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To: Renfield

The MSM loves a story that suggests those of European ancestry are not a pure race, as if any half informed person ever thought they were. This story is more about the MSM’s PC-ness and the guilt-ridden, self-loathing white folks who make up most of it.


34 posted on 08/22/2012 8:27:40 AM PDT by Will88
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To: Lowell1775; DManA

Finding a bit of really extraneous DNA is not ethnically significant perhaps but it does tell a cool story about human travel and interaction. I’ve often felt it must be risky living ones life as a racist since none of us can vouch for the morals of our great-great-great grandmothers.

I’m told I am of Scottish and Irish descent but my folks were of a generation more concerned with their descendants than their ancestors so who knows. To find out I am a wee bit Berber or African or Asian is pretty cool.


35 posted on 08/22/2012 8:27:46 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (Legalize Freedom!!)
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To: tsomer

LOL, a bit ambiguous but I’m going to assume you are bragging about your good looking dogs AND kids.


36 posted on 08/22/2012 8:32:44 AM PDT by DManA
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To: Renfield

This has been known for years. The Roman legions that built Hadrian’s Wall were from all over the Empire, including North Africa. There’s no way a legion of soldiers goes anywhere without leaving some Y-DNA behind.


37 posted on 08/22/2012 8:34:21 AM PDT by ccmay (Too much Law; not enough Order.)
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To: muir_redwoods
risky living ones life as a racist since none of us can vouch for the morals of our great-great-great grandmothers.

The Hitler syndrome.

38 posted on 08/22/2012 8:34:21 AM PDT by DManA
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To: Renfield

Well, that explains how the bagpipes got to Scotland...or not.


39 posted on 08/22/2012 8:43:04 AM PDT by madison10
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To: Lowell1775; muawiyah
Muawiyah pointed out to me once that the Picts could have been annihilated by the Britons-Scotti-Angles. This was expressly so in the area of what is now Glasgow which was Britons where the BRitons moved north to get away from teh Angles and Saxons. At the same time to the east of them were Angles and to the north picts and Scotti (who came from Ireland)

Berber, Irani (Sarmatian), Roman, etc. blood is to be expected.

40 posted on 08/22/2012 8:43:17 AM PDT by Cronos (**Marriage is about commitment, cohabitation is about convenience.**)
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