{"id":32376,"date":"2013-07-17T04:33:59","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T04:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=32376"},"modified":"2017-02-19T22:02:52","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T22:02:52","slug":"scottish-peoples-dna-study-could-rewrite-nations-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=32376","title":{"rendered":"Scottish people&#8217;s DNA study could &#8216;rewrite nation&#8217;s history&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/uk\/2012\/aug\/15\/scotland-dna-study-project\" target=\"_blank\">Scottish people&#8217;s DNA study could &#8216;rewrite nation&#8217;s history&#8217;<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">The Guardian<\/a><br \/>\n2012-08-14<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/profile\/charlottehiggins\" target=\"_blank\">Charlotte Higgins<\/a><\/strong>, Chief Arts Writer<\/p>\n<p><em>Evidence of African, Arabian, south-east Asian and Siberian ancestry in Scotland, says author of book tracing genetic journey<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A large scale <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotlandsdna.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a> of Scottish people&#8217;s DNA is threatening to &#8220;rewrite the nation&#8217;s history&#8221;, according to author <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alistairmoffat.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alistair Moffat<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Scotland, he told the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edbookfest.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Edinburgh international book festival<\/a>, despite a long-held belief that its ethnic make-up was largely Scots, Celtic, Viking and Irish, was in fact &#8220;one of the most diverse nations on earth&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/uk\/2012\/aug\/15\/scotland-dna-study-project\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scottish people&#8217;s DNA study could &#8216;rewrite nation&#8217;s history&#8217; The Guardian 2012-08-14 Charlotte Higgins, Chief Arts Writer Evidence of African, Arabian, south-east Asian and Siberian ancestry in Scotland, says author of book tracing genetic journey A large scale study of Scottish people&#8217;s DNA is threatening to &#8220;rewrite the nation&#8217;s history&#8221;, according to author Alistair Moffat. Scotland, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,459,8,10],"tags":[15216,15215,153,2103],"class_list":["post-32376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-history","category-media-archive","category-uk","tag-alistair-moffat","tag-charlotte-higgins","tag-scotland","tag-the-guardian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51667,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32376\/revisions\/51667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}