White people around the world today, whichever continent they may live on now, all originally came from Europe, and light skin, blonde hair and blue eyes have been a stereotypical description of northern Europeans for a long time. But it turns out some of those physical traits are a relatively recent evolution, and that humans in northern Europe were actually dark-skinned to start with.
Researchers from University College London (UCL) and Natural History Museum, London, undertook genetic analysis of Cheddar Man, the name given to the oldest complete human skeleton to have been found in the United Kingdom. The fossil itself dates back to about 10,000 years and was discovered about 115 years ago in a cave in Cheddar village (hence the name, which has nothing to do with cheese).
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