A DNA sample from a 10,000-year-old skeleton discovered in Gough Cave near Cheddar Gorge, England, offers a remarkable revelation: The first modern British people had “dark brown to black skin”. According to recent analysis, they also had dark curly hair and blue eyes. In other words, whiteness in Europe is…
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