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Early Europeans Had Dark Skin, DNA Study Finds
DNA study suggests that even during the time of the Roman Empire, dark skin was predominant. Credit: orbis / flickr CC BY-NC-ND 2 A study of ancient DNA from Europeans between 1,700 and 45,000 years ago suggests that 63 percent of them had dark skin and 8 percent had pale skin, with the rest somewhere in between. It was only around 3000 years ago that individuals with intermediate or pale skin started to become a majority. Experts at the Univers…
Most people in Europe had dark skin until the Iron Age just 3,000 years ago. Light skin became dominant surprisingly late in history, according to a new study.
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