The article.
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/02/ancient-face-cheddar-man-reconstructed-dna-spd/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Social&utm_content=link_fb20180207news-cheddarman&utm_campaign&sf181539217=1
I suspect that the skin colour would have been more of a light brown colour. The depiction that they are promoting is likely propaganda to encourage the modern multi-cultural agenda. Why do I say this? Because their logic is flawed.
First of all, there are no soft tissue remains available to examine. So they are working entirely on theory based on DNA patterns.
Secondly, just because the genes are similar does not suggest a certain gene expresson or outcome. You may have the genes that make you more prone to Crohn's disease, but never actually get the disease. Eye colour is much less complicated in the genome than skin colour or height or body type.
And finally, they claim that the lighter skin made the body more capable of breaking down vitamin D which would make the individual healthier in low light conditions. This is biologically true. However they are limiting their focus on Britain and perhaps Europe, but do not explain how these dark skinned people survived and thrived in places like Siberia, where our ancestors have been roaming around for over 45 thousand years. Would they not have gotten ill and weak and then died off in these harsh conditions? What about Mongolia? What about Japan?
What they should say is that the results are "inconclusive" at best.
What I am extremely curious of is why the model is shown with no facial hair. Was this to make him more pretty by today's standards?
We are truly guessing when trying to fit the puzzle pieces together from our distant past.
Lucy was the first oldest human skeleton fossil found and dated back to around 3.2 million years ago. She was found in Ethiopia, and a theory arose that we all came out of Africa.
Then even older fossil remains were found in Ethiopia dating about 4 million years ago.
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/10/091001-oldest-human-skeleton-ardi-missing-link-chimps-ardipithecus-ramidus.html
Then 5.6 million year old hominid footprints were found in Greece
http://www.sci-news.com/othersciences/anthropology/trachilos-hominin-like-footprints-05185.html
Then a 7.2 million year old fossil remains were found in both Greece and Bulgaria.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170523083548.htm
Then through DNA science we discovered that nearly all of us have traces of Neaderthal DNA.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal_genome_project
I am afraid that the "Out of Africa" theory is holding less and less merit as time goes on.
The story of our ancient past appears to be much more complex than anyone could have imagined.
