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From: "Ken Nordtvedt" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Sykes/Oppenheimer
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 10:12:17 -0600
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From: "marianne dillow" <>
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Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 8:13 AM
Subject: Re: [DNA] Sykes/Oppenheimer


>I thought Sykes and Oppenheimer didn't have much to do with each other but
>I remember reading that they agreed that there has been far more
>continuinity in the British population than anyone previously expected.

To some degree I believe they hyped the "conventional wisdom" about hordes
of AngloSaxons coming to the Isles, so they could claim they changed the
story. The Weale and Capelli data pointed toward 30 percent infusions in
eastern England, and I think that is still the ballpark figure today.
Marketing books these days is lots of making over statements.


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