The Cheddar Man findings have been replicated, discussed, debated, and built upon in the years since 2018.

The specific conclusions — dark skin, blue eyes, WHG ancestry — have not been overturned.

They have been confirmed by subsequent work on other WHG individuals and have been integrated into the broader picture of European population prehistory that ancient DNA research is assembling.

Some nuances have been added.

Later research has suggested that the confidence of the pigmentation predictions, while strong, should not be overstated — that “dark to black” skin is the most probable prediction but that the specific intensity of pigmentation cannot be pinpointed precisely.

Researchers have emphasized that the probabilistic nature of ancient DNA pigmentation prediction is real, and that the reconstruction represents a best estimate rather than a certain portrait.