re: Britain's Gene Pool was 90% Replaced in the Bronze Age

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TL;DR -- Europe was conquered by invaders from the Pontic-Caspian Steppe (Ukraine) in the LN and early bronze age. These Steppe male lines (R1a and R1b) dominated the old neolithic farmer male lines in both the Corded Ware and Bell Beaker cultures of central and northern Europe. However, the Iberian Bell Beakers remained mostly of old Mediterranean farmer stock. In Britain this replacement was even more complete with 90% of the British gene pool being replaced by these Steppe invaders. All of this happened well over a thousand years before Sparta and Troy did battle. It turns out that Britain was invaded, conquered, with the original population almost being completely erased in about 2500 BC.

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