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Irish fair skin, freckles and red hair may be a bit of an overstated cliché but there’s no doubt we are on the paler side of average when it comes to complexion. Traditionally this has been put down to the lack of sunshine and the colder climate. Now scientists believe there may be a more dramatic explanation – that our pale appearance is inherited from just one man who lived 10,000 years ago. What makes the theory more surprising is that this man came from a warmer climate, thousands of miles a