DNA data offers look at 500 years of extramarital sex
(World News UK)

Adulterers who may have taken the secret of an extramarital affair to the grave are being outed 500 years later. In the modern day the question of paternity can be solved with a simple test, but things were not so easy five centuries ago. However, researchers have put DNA evidence together with long-term genealogical data to explore questions of biological fatherhood on a broad scale, among people living in parts of western Europe over the last 500 years. Scientists found that while the overall number of so-called extra-pair paternity (EPP) events - women having babies with someone other than their partner - was fairly low, their frequency varied...