AHC: Non-white Europe

Brunaburh

Gone Fishin'
Are you sure about that? It's plausible for every Southern Europe, but does every Estonian or Russian ,for example, have black African ancestry? Do you know a study which confirms that?

Estonia, almost certainly yes. There was enough adoption, conversion and marrying into the Jewish community of mediterranean non-Jews and the Teutonic knights had many aristocratic members from Germany who will have some lateral gene flow from more southerly populations. My doubt was Finland, but again, all you need is one Briton with one subsaharan ancestor from the Roman period winding up in Denmark in the 10th century and has reproductive success (or one of their descendants does). That person will probably feature in the lineage of all modern Finns. Again, their African legacy will be negligible genetically, undetectable in fact, but one drop is one drop.

In reality there has been so much population movement that there are almost certainly dozens of people who brought the one-drop to Finland.
 
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