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Brits assimilated by germans in fifth century Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601102&sid=aQFgynyHcZ_c&refer=uk http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601102&sid=aQFgynyHcZ_c&refer=uk English and Germans, Combative Cousins, Share Genes, Study Says July 19 (Bloomberg) -- The English-German rivalry may be one of the world's most ancient family feuds. The modern-day English gene pool contains 50 to 100 percent Germanic Y-chromosomes, says Mark Thomas, a geneticist at University College London. The reason can be traced back to a medieval segregation system, set up some 1,600 years ago to keep Anglo-Saxon overlords separate from the native Celts, Thomas says in a new study, co-authored with German academics. The apartheid theory explains why the English don't share more genes with their Scottish and Welsh compatriots, even though Anglo Saxons came to Britain in fairly small numbers, Thomas said in a telephone interview. ``We wrote a computer simulation to see if it could actually explain the discrepancy,'' he said. ``We found that apartheid is just the perfect explanation.'' The 10,000 to 200,000 Anglo Saxons who began coming to Britain in the fifth century used their military and economic might to force the majority Celts into a system of servitude, similar to the one that recently ended in South Africa, Thomas said. ``We believe that they also prevented the native British genes getting into the Anglo-Saxon population by restricting intermarriage,'' he said. The Anglo Saxons' superior social standing allowed more of their children to survive into adulthood, populating the land with people who speak a primarily Germanic language, he said. The English have the closest genetic ties with people living in Friesland in the northern Netherlands, Thomas said. ``Theirs is the closest living language to Old English,'' he said. ``It's also one of the geographic regions from which the Anglo Saxons set sail.'' He rejects the notion that the close genetic links between Germans and English may have spawned a sibling-like rivalry. ``Any competitiveness is down to World Cup finals and a couple of world wars, and I don't know in what order,'' Thomas said. The study, co-authored by Michael Stumpf of Imperial College London and Heinrich Harke of the University of Reading, was published today's edition of The Proceedings of the Royal Society B, an academic journal. To contact the reporter on this story: Alex Kuli in Budapest at akuli@bloomberg.net Last Updated: July 18, 2006 20:36 EDT

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