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Genetics

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Why is there no section on the genetics of the Scottish population? 2.98.201.84 (talk) 12:16, 29 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The redirect Scottish nation has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 May 12 § Scottish nation until a consensus is reached. CycloneYoris talk! 23:22, 12 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

"While Highland Scots are of Celtic (Gaelic) descent, Lowland Scots are descended from people of Germanic stock."

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There does not seem to be much evidence to support this generalised and arguably outdated claim. It greatly implies Anglo-Saxons replaced rather than assimilated the Brythonic Celts which recent studies have cast doubt on. DNA mapping by Oxford University in 2015 even found the English population had far lower Anglo-Saxon ancestry than previously thought. Furthermore, whilst there will undoubtedly be higher Anglo-Saxon ancestry in the Lowlands, especially in the former territories of Bernicia, there is in fact similar Germanic ancestry in the Highlands, particularly in the Hebrides, Caithness and Northern Isles due to Norse settlement. The idea that Lowland Scots are homogeneously Germanic and Highland Scots homogeneously Celtic just has no basis in fact. VeryReluctantAcademic (talk) 10:49, 8 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

agreed. The shift was more about language and wasn't a replacement of a different group of people. Simply, the lowlanders who were at one time Pictish or Gaelic speaking became speakers of a new language, Scots. 2001:FB1:11A:E21:9509:BCCB:28A6:38E7 (talk) 14:29, 17 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]