The Seven Daughters Of Eve by Professor Bryan Sykes (Paperback, 2002)

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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 old, fascinated the world. But what made the story particularly extraordinary was that Professor Sykes was also able to track down a living generic relative of the Ice Man, a woman living in Britain today. ow 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 the

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PublisherTransworld LTD
ISBN-139780552148764
eBay Product ID (ePID)91275145

Product Key Features

SubjectScience, Biology
Publication Year2002
Number of Pages368 Pages
Publication NameThe Seven Daughters of Eve
LanguageEnglish
TypeTextbook
AuthorProfessor Bryan Sykes
FormatPaperback

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Item Weight198 g

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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorProfessor Bryan Sykes
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