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and there is no possibility that cheddar man was a slave, brought to Britain from another country?
Cheddar Man belonged to haplogroup I2 in the paternal line and to haplogroup U5b1 in the maternal line. Both haplogroups are typically European, which are very rare or non-existent in Africa. Researchers thus concluded that Cheddar Man was a local man. Haplogroup I2 is continental Europe's largest Mesolithic paternal lineage. It is common among Slavic and Germanic people.
The dark skin and blue eyes phenotype combination was likely very common among WHGs and it has been inferred for four out of five Mesolithic and Upper Paleolithic individuals in western and central Europe. Moreover, the allelic states at the h-1 defining positions suggest that La Braña, Loschbour and Villabruna carried this haplotype. The haplotype determination was inconclusive for the remaining individuals due to alternative alleles and missing data at informative positions. All individuals from this group were predicted to have a dark hair color, where Loschbour, Villabruna and Bichon probably had black hair, whereas La Braña and KO1 present similar probabilities of having brown or black hair(Supplementary Table 1).
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