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OK, now this all sound extremely sexist and all, and for that I apologize- but really, it seems to be true. In a paper published last year in the Proceeding of the Royal Society B, Belgian scientists find exactly that- men can't really think straight after seeing beautiful women. (Note to wife: I am clearly the exception to this rule) (Note to Wife 2: errr, what I mean is that yes, you are beautiful- and even still, I can think straight)

First Genetic Evidence Of Long-lived African Presence Within Britain

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New research has identified the first genetic evidence of Africans having lived amongst "indigenous" British people for centuries. Their descendants, living across the UK today, were unaware of their black ancestry.

The University of Leicester study, funded by the Wellcome Trust and published today in the journal European Journal of Human Genetics, found that one third of men with a rare Yorkshire surname carry a rare Y chromosome type previously found only amongst people of West African origin.

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