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February 24th, 2018 
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Scientists say the dark-skinned ‘Cheddar Man’ who is believed to have been the first ever Briton, did not have had dark skin after all.
The Briton, who lived 10,000 years ago, was believed to have had dark brown skin and blue eyes. But one of the geneticists who performed the research says the conclusion, which was widely reported in the media this month, may have been based on false data.
Newscientist.com reports: The skeleton of Cheddar Man was discovered in 1903 in a cave in south-east England where it had lain for 10,000 years.
Until a few weeks ago, he had always been depicted with pale skin. This makes some sense, given that people living at northern latitudes often have paler skins.
But the new DNA analysis suggests that Cheddar Man may have had dark skin. Most news stories said his skin was “dark to black”.
Giveaway genes
To show this, researchers including Susan Walsh at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis read Cheddar Man’s DNA. Walsh had helped develop a model that attempts to predict someone’s eye, hair and skin pigmentation solely from their DNA, and the team applied this model to Cheddar Man.
The most recent version of the model was published in May 2017. It focuses on 36 spots in 16 genes, all linked to skin colour.
The model correctly identified who had “light” skin or “dark-black” skin, with a small margin of error.
When Walsh and her colleagues applied the model to Cheddar Man, they concluded his skin colour fell between “dark” and “dark to black”.
Not so sure
The research was first announced by press release, to coincide with the release of a TV documentary. It has now been posted to a preprint server.
Walsh stresses that the study doesn’t conclusively demonstrate Cheddar Man had dark to black skin. We cannot place such confidence in the DNA analysis, she says. For one thing, Cheddar Man’s DNA has degraded over the last 10,000 years.
“It’s not a simple statement of ‘this person was dark-skinned’,” says Walsh. “It is his most probable profile, based on current research.”
In fact, we are not ready to predict the skin colour of prehistoric people just from their genes, says Brenna Henn at Stony Brook University, New York. That’s because the genetics of skin pigmentation turn out to be more complex than thought.
Too many genes
In November 2017, Henn and her colleagues published a paper exploring the genetics of skin pigmentation in populations indigenous to southern Africa – where skin colour varies more than many people appreciate. Just weeks before, a group led by Sarah Tishkoff at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia had published a paper on the genetics of skin pigmentation in people from eastern and southern Africa.
“The conclusions were really the same,” says Henn. “Known skin pigmentation genes, discovered primarily in East Asian and European populations, don’t explain the variation in skin pigmentation in African populations. The idea that there are really only about 15 genes underlying skin pigmentation isn’t correct.”
If we are still learning about the link between genes and skin pigmentation in living populations, we can’t yet predict the skin colour of prehistoric people, says Henn.
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I’m a British scientist and I’ve got an upcoming video scheduled on Odysee blowing the lid off this fraud.
I’m also more “related” to Cheddar Man than most. I’m U5b1c, Cheddar Man is U5b1. I’m I1 and Cheddar Man is I2 (more distantly related by the Y chromosome. I have family not far from the area where Cheddar Man was found.
In the video I first take Cheddar Man’s DNA and run it through the same tool they used. It says he has a 50% chance of blue eyes, otherwise light eyes with a small chance of being brown. It says he has around a 75% chance of being very dark skinned or otherwise intermediate.
However, I have also had my own DNA sequenced, which is more reliable than that of Cheddar Man’s.
I’m very white and everyone in my family is either very pale or pale. I have brown eyes. My family tends to have brown eyes.
The tool said that I have a 95% chance of having blue eyes, more so than Cheddar Man. The tool also said I had a 95% chance of having intermediate skin colour (as if I were half white, half black).
I’m not a fan of all of your hoax theories or theme, I specialise in fraud that I can actually prove or present reasonable suspicion for.
However, I thought you would particularly like this. I have a back log of months of videos to put up so it should be in my channel in perhaps a week or so if you keep and eye on it.
I would appreciate some traffic for this exclusive and blowing the lid of one of the biggest scientific frauds in recent history with actual proof to that effect.
This is a very big story and when it breaks it will leave a lot of people with egg on their face. Man related to Cheddar Man reveals hoax. Related is really the wrong term but it’s the same spin they put on their story so it should be a good one.