
Originally Posted by
Dr. Solar Wolff
This is interesting but perhaps you could say whether there are any surprises here. For instance the distance between the English and the Dutch is 5 and this is probably what we would expect. In the other Cavalli-Sforza post you made concerning the Icelanders, could not the closeness of the Icelanders to the English not be own of direct relationship but of common origin? What I mean is that the modern English are usually assumed to be a mixture of Anglo-Saxon, Viking, Norman, etc with the original Keltic population. The Icelanders are always said to also be of somewhat mixed oirgin, Norway, Ireland, Sweden, and so on. Doesn't this "distance" evidence simply point out the common origin of both populations as a Germanic-Keltic mix but not necessarily a direct relationship between the Icelanders and the English?
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