The other ninety percent of that ancestry comes primarily from the Neolithic Anatolian farmers and the Bronze Age steppe pastoralists — the two later populations that substantially replaced the WHG.

This means that all modern British people carry some genetic inheritance from the population to which Cheddar Man belonged.

The inheritance is diluted to a minority of their overall ancestry, but it is present.

Some specific genetic variants that were carried by Cheddar Man and his contemporaries survive in modern British genomes, just in lower frequencies than the variants introduced by later populations.

The evolutionary fate of the Western Hunter-Gatherers is, in this sense, not extinction.