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The author offers a revolutionary theory about the origins of the British people, based on the very latest genetic evidence.
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Stephen Oppenheimer of the University of Oxford is a leading expert in the use of DNA to track migrations and his previous book Out of Eden: The Peopling of the World rewrote the prehistory of man's early colonization of the world. He is also the author of Eden in the East: The Drowned Continent of Southeast Asia, which challenged the orthodox view of the origins of Polynesians as rice farmers from Taiwan.
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Particularly illuminating ... The author carefully lays out the genetic data that show how three-quarters of Britishness dates to the repopulation after the northern ice sheets last retreated, and takes us through a fascinating investigation of what this means for some cherished notions of Britishness. * Nature * He upends some of the most deeply rooted notions of where the British people come from, and does so in a clear, painstaking and detailed way. The result is both fascinating and unexpected. * Geographical * The historians' account is wrong in almost every detail. In Dr Oppenheimer's reconstruction of events, the principal ancestors of today's British and Irish populations arrived from Spain about 16,000 years ago. * New York Times * Be prepared to have all your cherished notions of English history and Britishness swept away. * Clive Gamble *
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- PublisherRobinson Publishing
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 1845294823
- ISBN 13 9781845294823
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages400
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