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The Bell Beakers replaced the Southern Mesolithic peoples to some degree but that is based on archaeological record which really doesn't hold weight; in archaeology the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence, but the vast majority of Paleoithic people survived in the North and in Ireland. Britain is a treasure trove of rare Paleolithic subclades. The Paleothic population was tiny, the Neolithics and Beakers probably grew their population ten fold from what it was before they arrived. The Cro-Magnons of Britain were founded by a population of no more than a dozen people who survived the Doggerland extinction events. Even the Mesolithic farmer/hg people weren't that numerous.
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