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Pure 'Cro Magnons' (in the most generous definition, WHG) in Britain were at least 75% replaced by Neolithic Farmers 5000-6000 years ago. After which the Neolithic Britons were 90% replaced by Bell Beakers 4500 years ago. After which Bronze Age (Southern) British were 50% replaced by proto-Celts 3000 years ago. After which, Celtic Britons in England were 75%+ replaced by Anglo-Saxons, Vikings & French in the Middle Ages.
Draw your own conclusions.
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Native 'Cro Magnon'/Mesolithic British have not survived, they would make up under 1% of any British person's ancestry. The re-emergence of European Cro-Magnon/Mesolithic blood and phenotypes occurred when the Bell Beakers wiped out the woggy Neolithic British 4500 years ago. Ever since then there has been a gradual decline of that component and associated phenotypes in Britain, especially in England.
There's no point in talking about native Cro Magnons, you should talk specifically of British Bell Beakers. Their presence in Britain is old enough to be native, and unlike Cheddar Man their influence meaningfully survives today in people of the British Isles, most strongly in Ireland and other Insular 'Celts'. It is essentially what separates the British & Irish from continentals, genetically and phenotypically.
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Bell Beakers were a culture that spread across Western Europe (much like Slavs across Eastern Europe), but the ones in NW Europe were the purest and least diluted by Farmer blood. Actually the settled British Bell Beakers were genetically further from the settled Iberian and Southern French Bell Beakers than the modern British are from Southern French and Iberians (because of the mediating effect of the Celts).
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