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March 8, 2005

Afro-European Genetic Admixture in the United States

Posted by Eric at 11:56 am. Filed under: General

Here’s a fascinating read from Frank W. Sweet.

About one-third of White Americans are of between two and twenty percent recent African genetic admixture, as measured by the ancestry-informative markers in their DNA.19 This comes to about 74 million Americans. And yet, day-to-day experience teaches that virtually all White Americans look, well, White. Some may look more Mediterranean and others may look more Nordic, but very few White Americans have a distinctively African appearance. How can one reconcile DNA measurements with common experience?

HT: Bayne


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