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The Origins of the British: A Genetic Detective Story
Author(s): Stephen Oppenheimer (Author)
- Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc
- Publication Date: 7 Nov. 2006
- Language: English
- Print length: 320 pages
- ISBN-10: 9780786718900
- ISBN-13: 0786718900
Book Description
Analyzes the genetic background of the British, concluding that there are genetic differences between the populations of east and west Britain, but that these date to before the Anglo-Saxon, Viking, and Norman invasions.
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About the Author
Stephen Oppenheimer of the University of Oxford is an expert in the use of DNA to track migrations. His Out of Eden rewrote the prehistory of man’s peopling of the world in a thesis since confirmed in Science, while Eden in the East: the Drowned Continent of Southeast Asia challenged the view of the origins of Polynesians as Taiwanese rice farmers.
