Given all of my DNA research on the migration mysteries of my fore-bearers, this story tickles me. Who knew that 1-4% of my genes come from the species (?) described by today’s WPost as: “much-caricatured, beetle-browed cave-men.”
And just think, my imagination was so limited I was only wondering why the Healy Y chromosome isn’t Celtic, but instead is either Saxon or Danish. (Researchers still can’t tell the difference, says Oxford’s Bryan Sykes in Saxons, Vikings and Celts: The Genetic Roots of Britain and Ireland.