This paper intends to compare historical records and interpretations about Indian and Jew ancestry in the origin of Brazilian South-East population with the results of the geneticist Sérgio Pena in his study of the filogenetic origins of the segment of Brazilian population self-classified as "white". We compare Pena's outcomes in his work Homo brasilis with historical data deriving from bibliographical material and documents, and conclude that Pena's outcomes match the historical data in the case of matrilineal ancestry, but are discrepant in the case of pratrilineal ancestry.
Homo brasilis; genetics; history; ancestry; indigenous; Sephardic
