Who’s the daddy? Difficult to say in Victorian times | Sarah Ditum

New research sheds light on the parlous lot of women during the Industrial RevolutionThe women of the 19th-century urban poor were at it. Sneaking around, getting some. That, anyway, is the conclusion drawn from some recently reported DNA research, published in the journal Current Biology.The authors of the paper compared the Y chromosomes of 513 pairs of men who supposedly share a common ancestor to determine the prevalence of what they called “extra-pair paternity” over the past 50