The Seven Daughters of Eve"In 1994 Professor Bryan Sykes, a leading world authority on DNA and human evolution, was called in to examine the frozen remains of a man trapped in glacial ice in northern Italy. News of the discovery of the Ice Man and his age, which was put at over five thousand years, fascinated the world. But what made the story particularly extraordinary was that Professor Sykes was also able to track down a genetic descendant of the Ice Man, a woman living in Britain today." "How was he able to locate a living relative of a man who died thousands of years ago? In The Seven Daughters of Eve, Bryan Sykes gives us a first-hand account of his research into a remarkable gene which passes undiluted from generation to generation through the maternal line, and shows how it is being used to track our genetic ancestors through time and space. After plotting thousands of DNA sequences from all over the world, he found that they had clustered around a handful of distinct groups. In Europe there are only seven. The conclusion: almost everyone of native European descent, wherever they live in the world, can trace their ancestry back to one of seven women, the Seven Daughters of Eve. He has named them Ursula, Xenia, Helena, Velda, Tara, Katrine and Jasmine." --Book Jacket. |
Contents
Prologue | 1 |
Icemans Relative Found in Dorset | 3 |
So What is DNA and What Does It Do? 222 | 22 |
Copyright | |
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Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry Bryan Sykes Limited preview - 2002 |
Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry Bryan Sykes No preview available - 2002 |
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