'Apartheid' society gave edge to Anglo-Saxons, study suggests: Knowledge Driven Revolution

The Anglo-Saxons who invaded England centuries ago set up an apartheid society to outbreed native Britons, biologists say.

It's thought that between 10,000 and 200,000 migrants from present-day Germany, northern Holland and Denmark moved to England between the 5th and 7th century AD, when the native population was more than two million.

But in fewer than 15 generations, more than half the gene pool in England showed Germanic roots, biologist Mark Thomas of the University College London and his colleagues report in Thursday's issue of the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

The military power and economic advantages of the invaders could have enabled more of their children survive to adulthood, the researchers propose.

"We believe that they also prevented the native British genes getting into the Anglo-Saxon population by restricting intermarriage in a system of apartheid that left the country culturally and genetically Germanised.

"This is exactly what we see today — a population of largely Germanic-genetic origin, speaking a principally German language," Thomas said in a release.

Servant-master relationship

Historical and archeological evidence suggests a servant-master relationship divided along ethnic lines, similar to the apartheid society that segregated blacks from minority whites in South Africa, the researchers said.

The graves of Anglo-Saxon men often contained more weapons and artifacts compared with those of native Britons.

Similarly, the laws of Ine, the late seventh-century ruler of Wessex in western England, also showed the life of an Anglo-Saxon was valued more than a native Briton of comparable status when it came to paying blood money — reparations for the murder of a family member.

The researchers looked for telltale variations in the male Y chromosome, and then used computer simulations to demonstrate how an apartheid-like society could explain the genetic and linguistic patterns visible today.

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