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There is an interesting aspect to Stuckert's paper. To quote from footnote 19 on page 28 of my book Legal History of the Color Line (Also available as endnote 17 of Afro-European Genetic Admixture in the United States.) It is where I talk about DNA evidence for genetic leakage across the endogamous color line barrier:
| Quote: | | Astonishingly, these DNA-based findings confirm an obscure 1958 study that predicted, on the basis of statistical demographics alone, that about 21 percent of White Americans had Black ancestry within the past four generations. See Robert S. Stuckert, “The African Ancestry of the White American Population,” Ohio Journal of Science, 55 (May, 1958), 155-60. |
As others have pointed out, there is no obvious reason why Stuckert's assumptions, on which his demographic analysis was based, should have resulted in numbers confirmed by autosomal mapping a half-century later. Either the man was prescient or it was sheer luck.
For the future, in case the link that AD has so kindly provided vanishes, there is another copy of the study available at http://backintyme.com/admixture/stuckert01.pdf. |
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