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From: "R. & G. Stevens" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Early Population levels in the ' British peninsula '
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 07:39:18 -0500
References: <BAEKIPDCJKIGDOPBOCPBMEPLCKAA.r.bootle@btinternet.com>


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Bootle" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 3:38 AM
Subject: Re: [DNA] Early Population levels in the ' British peninsula '


> John,
>
> I am grateful for your responses.
>
> However, I am suprised that you predict that a tentative assumption,
> presented in the form of a polite question, would make some people mad at
> me.
>
> I was thinking that this is a useful mailing list.
>
> If I have inadvertantly walked into a hornet's nest, I will soon step
> back.
>
> Regarding your counter question. < Why do you need to know ?? >
>
> I am just trying to extend my knowledge of the family tree, as I adjust to
> my recent retirement. It is also part of my effort to keep my mind
> stimulated.
>
> Bob Bootle
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I am not sure what John meant, Bob. I don't think suggesting that the
Mesolithic male population of Britain was R1b1 will make anyone angry at
you, since that is the current orthodoxy. It seems that everybody and his
brother believes that.

Had you suggested anything else, well, then you would have been inviting
controversy.

Rich

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