Originally Posted by
Jackson
The point i'm making is that nowadays London is unlike most of the rest of the country outside some other big cities, so it is more worthwhile making comparisons of people with a rural background. One of POBI's early papers also showed that city-dwellers are significantly more Celtic in ancestry than the people who live in the countryside perhaps just a few miles away. So really if you are looking at English people from London, it's not surprising that they would be significantly darker given that they on average have more Celtic ancestry and are more likely to have foreign ancestry than people from rural areas, or who's family are from rural areas.