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Uh, wow. The NYT article I posted about was apparently so compelling to the editors that they decided to run the same article again. No kidding. I'm reading them side by side, as the second incarnation sounded so familiar. The only changes seem to be new title ("A United Kingdom? Maybe" instead of "English, Irish, Scots: They're All One, Genes Suggest"), added graphic and sidebar info, spread out over two pages (because of the graphic, I assume), paragraphs combined to make longer ones, and a single minor wording change: "since the English Channel and the Irish Sea were still land" instead of "since there were still land bridges then across what are now English Channel and the Irish Sea."

Incredibly weak showing there, NYT. That was hardly fit to print once, let alone twice. And yet, somehow, the two articles are in spots 3 and 4 on the Most E-mailed list.

Edit: A couple of debunkings over at Language Log: One of the linguistics, and
one of the genetics.