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Although the Irish don't descend from Anglo-Saxons, phenotypically were Anglo-Saxons closer to the Irish than to the English?
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Distance to: England_Saxon
0.01553202 Irish
0.01815075 English
Distance to: England_Saxon.SG
0.01411547 Irish
0.01761217 English
Distance to: England_EarlyMedieval_Saxon
0.01643549 Irish
0.02001475 English
Distance to: England_EarlyMedieval_Saxon.SG
0.03036594 Irish
0.03383895 English
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English have a lot of Anglo-Saxon ancestry but also have quite a bit of French ancestry which has pulled them further away from the Anglo-Saxons. The Irish have less of this French ancestry and are closer to the Bell Beakers so have more Steppe ancestry which makes them closer to Anglo-Saxons today than the English.
Someone like Creoda will be able to explain this.
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No, Looney Tunes! This concerns only one genetical aspect not all, see. Remember the majority of the English and Lowland Scottish people still carry the «*Germanic Y-DNA*» which was passed on by their Germanic ancestors . It isn’t the case with the Irish who are almost exclusively Celtic when it comes to that topic. Phenotypically the English show more of a Germanic cast than the Irish and the other British as a whole, in fact, fair hair for example is highest in frequency in the historical Danelaw area of England. Although we can agree the English are more mixed than the Irish.
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