To add alittle more to the mix:

It seems that recent genetic research in the British
Isles has resulted in at least one conclusion that
both islands are one population (genetically at
least).  The presumption is that the first arrivals
came from Iberia about 16000 ybp and that group is
responsible for the majority of the present gene pool

Google search on British Genetic population found this
article in the NY Times.
English, Irish, Scots: They’re All One, Genes Suggest 
               
By NICHOLAS WADE
Published: March 5, 2007

If the latest genetic information indicates that the
Angles, Saxons, Normans, and even the Celts had little
effect on the genetics of the current population, then
it is highly unlikely that a genetic change can even
be postulated to have such a dramatic effect two
centuries ago.

Culture seems to be our best adaptive tool yet.



--- geoff carver <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> i'm more amazed someone could link an genetix with
> economic system... was 
> there a genetic basis to the english upper classes,
> or was that an offshoot 
> of feudalism, and/or maybe had something to do with
> norman invaders...?
> i don't see medieval upper classes going out and
> becoming carpenters or 
> shoe-makers, even if they were the 2nd or 3rd
> sons... and medieval & 
> elizabethan elites seem to have been pretty good at
> killing each other off, 
> even if they didn't have such high rates of infant
> mortality...
> it just really doesn't make any sense...
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Timothy Scarlett" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 6:35 PM
> Subject: genetics of capitalism
> 
> 
>  I'm very
> > disappointed in the NY Times for publishing such a
> simplistic review  of 
> > this book. 
> 



       
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