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DNA data reveals extra-marital sex that dates back 500 years

Brussels, Nov 15 (IANS) There are over-the-counter DNA kits that can reveal your ancestry but in a significant development, researchers have put DNA evidence together to reveal extra-marital sex in Western Europe families that dates back to 500 years.

They found that incidents of “extra-pair paternity” (EPP), whereby a female reproduces with a male other than the person she is “pair-bonded” with,…