Scottish people’s DNA study could ‘rewrite nation’s history’Posted in Anthropology, Articles, History, Media Archive, United Kingdom on 2013-07-17 04:33Z by Steven |
Scottish people’s DNA study could ‘rewrite nation’s history’
The Guardian
2012-08-14
Charlotte Higgins, Chief Arts Writer
Evidence of African, Arabian, south-east Asian and Siberian ancestry in Scotland, says author of book tracing genetic journey
A large scale study of Scottish people’s DNA is threatening to “rewrite the nation’s history”, according to author Alistair Moffat.
Scotland, he told the Edinburgh international book festival, despite a long-held belief that its ethnic make-up was largely Scots, Celtic, Viking and Irish, was in fact “one of the most diverse nations on earth”…
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