DNA shows Anglo Saxon girl had West African grandparent in 650
DNA tests on 7th-century remains at an "upper crust" Anglo-Saxon cemetary in Kent, England, reveal some of those buried there had far-flung genetic origins. One girl's paternal grandfather was "100% West African," writes Stephan Schiffels, a geneticist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropolo…
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