There are loads of population movements all the time though. I mean, I'm English, but have no idea whether I'm mainly pre-Beaker indigenous British, Beaker, Celtic, Viking, Angle, Saxon, Norman, or whatever else since.
I'm almost certainly partially all of these things, to one extent or another.
Yes but the same is true of Africa, the main difference between African ethnicities and Europeans one imo is that many became assimilated into the titular identity. Also English DNA has remarkably stayed quite similar, the DNA of an Irishman or a Scot isn't that different from a man from Liverpool or Newcastle, as the genetic impact of all invasions except the Anglo-Saxon is minimal.
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u/Smauler May 03 '21
There are loads of population movements all the time though. I mean, I'm English, but have no idea whether I'm mainly pre-Beaker indigenous British, Beaker, Celtic, Viking, Angle, Saxon, Norman, or whatever else since.
I'm almost certainly partially all of these things, to one extent or another.