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English Village: Cheddar Man and Light-Skinned Immigrants

english village: The Cheddar Man, named thus for the English village of Cheddar where his skeleton was discovered in 1903, is about 10,000 years old, according to Toronto Star. To add salt to a supremacist's wound, scientists said that the genes for lighter skin likely came from, you got it, immigrants from the Middle East. An announcement Wednesday that DNA tests on the oldest complete skeleton in Britain, that heart and ancestral home of many white people around the world, suggest that the first modern Briton was blue-eyed, yes, but very dark-skinned and curly-haired. Oh snap. It's like reaching into the eye of a storm and fitting it with sunglasses. Article Continued Below Dark-skinned native Britons and light-skinned immigrants. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.