In Roman Britain or throughout the empire. The crux of this silly debate is whether the BBC was PC propagandizing history with sub saharans
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Replying to @njalbanese @caitlinrgreen
I think taleb was making the argument that there is almost no genetic evidence of sub saharan Africans in England.
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Replying to @njalbanese
Yet the data from York, London, Leicester etc relates directly to ppl of 'Sub-Saharan' ancestry :) And as I said yesterday, modern DNA >
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Replying to @caitlinrgreen @njalbanese
> is methodologically v v difficult to use in this way, too much time and other events in the intervening yrs, cf. my occasional tweets >
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> on the disconnect between modern DNA results and the popn of early medieval England etc :)
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Replying to @caitlinrgreen @njalbanese
it's also worth stressing how the analysis of ancestry from modern DNA is complex to reconstruct ancient patterns
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really we need a good sampling of roman Britain ancient DNA bones - this would be v informative
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the final thing to realise is that humans have *always* been migrating and *always* having sex :)
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we genetically mix far faster than ppl intuitively realise and - e.g. - skin colour is v small part of the genome
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this means classifying ethnicity by skin colour+features is not actually good indicators of ancestry
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All great points, thank you! :)
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Replying to @caitlinrgreen @ewanbirney
As an American I understand the preoccupation with skin color here. I'm sad our baggage is now the entire western world's baggage, though.
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It's just so tiresome, it's time to move beyond this nonsense but both the left and the right cling to it.
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