Originally Posted by
Grace O'Malley
English don't call themselves Anglo-Saxon. It is only on genetic and anthropology forums that people use those terms. Regarding Isles populations there is also no Celtic cluster looking at published studies and also you can see it with Gedmatch calculators and G25 the Scots are closer to the Irish and English than they are to the Welsh and the Welsh are closer to the English than they are to Scots or Irish. Some Scots are closer to the Irish than they are to the English i.e. West Scots or Southwest Scots but many Scots would also be closer to the English than they are to the Irish especially border populations. Also genetics mirrors geography most of the time (there are exceptions) but for English they would be closer to Scots and Welsh than to the Irish which is logical when you look at geography. Hebrideans are closer to the Irish as are people from Argyll etc but if you know history you can see why that is the case. As I've said though there is no Celtic cluster which is not surprising as Welsh, Scots, Irish and also English have quite a bit of Bell Beaker ancestry with English having the least.
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