The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic AncestryThe national bestseller that reveals how we are descended from seven prehistoric women. In 1994 Bryan Sykes was called in as an expert to examine the frozen remains of a man trapped in glacial ice in northern Italy for over 5000 years—the Ice Man. Sykes succeeded in extracting DNA from the Ice Man, but even more important, writes Science News, was his "ability to directly link that DNA to Europeans living today." In this groundbreaking book, Sykes reveals how the identification of a particular strand of DNA that passes unbroken through the maternal line allows scientists to trace our genetic makeup all the way back to prehistoric times—to seven primeval women, the "seven daughters of Eve." |
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... living tens of thousands of years ago. In the pages that follow, I will take you through the excitement and the frustrations of the front-line research that lies behind these discoveries. Here you will see what really happens in a ...
... living Europeans. You might think this was not much of a surprise, but there was a real possibility that the whole episode could have been a gigantic hoax, with a South American mummy helicoptered in and planted in the ice. The cold and ...
... living people could I hope to put the results from human fossils into any sort of context. So I set out to discover as much as possible about the DNA in present-day Europeans and people from many other parts of the world, knowing that ...
... living bones but also in dead ones, and it is the carbon in the surviving collagen that is used to date them. Robert wondered if there was any genetic information in these surviving fragments of ancient collagen, so he and I put ...
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Contents
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The Special Messenger | 52 |
The Tsar and I | 63 |
The Puzzle of the Pacific | 79 |
The Greatest Voyagers | 96 |
Adam Joins the Party | 185 |
The Seven Daughters | 195 |
Ursula | 202 |
Xenia | 213 |
Helena | 221 |
Velda | 234 |
Tara | 243 |
Katrine | 252 |
The First Europeans | 108 |
The Last of the Neanderthals | 116 |
Hunters and Farmers | 131 |
We Are Not Amused | 146 |
Cheddar Man Speaks | 169 |
Jasmine | 260 |
The World | 271 |
A Sense of Self | 287 |
Index | 299 |