Black skin, blue eyes and curly hair: DNA tests reveal the extraordinary face of the first ancient Briton and 10,000-year-old Cheddar Man is directly related to one in ten people in the UK today.

By Colin Fernandez Science Correspondent For The Daily Mail and Harry Pettit and Tim Collins For Mailonline.

- The bones are the oldest near-complete human skeleton ever found in Britain and were unearthed in 1903.
- Researchers extracted DNA data from bone powder by drilling a 2mm hole through the skull's inner ear bone.
- It showed that there was a 76 per cent chance that Cheddar Man was ‘dark to black’ by today's standards.
- Research suggests the first inhabitants of the British isles developed white skin later on than thought.

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"Wandafoo"

Could be true.