Germanic invaders did not rule Britain by apartheid
A new analysis of British DNA has led geneticists to suggest that Germanic invaders may not have ruled Britain by apartheid.
According to a report in New Scientist, earlier, the discovery of a strong Germanic signal in the Y-chromosome of British men had prompted geneticists at University College London to suggest that enslavement and apartheid imposed by Saxon invaders was responsible.
But, according to John Pattison of the University of South Australia in Adelaide, it is just not necessary to assume an apartheid-like system. “The evidence is compatible with the idea of a much more integrated society,” he said.