A big surprise
But there was a big surprise in store for some. A quarter of the men who took part in the study found their DNA sequences were more closely related to Europeans than Africans. How could this be?
'This is genetic evidence of the sexual politics of the situation of slavery. There was a power relationship between two populations - European men were having sex with African women.'
Mark Jobling, geneticist, University of Leicester
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| Mark Jobling is a geneticist who worked on the Motherland project |
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