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The national bestseller that reveals how we are descended from seven prehistoric women. One of the most dramatic stories of genetic discovery since James Watson's The Double Helix, The Seven Daughters of Eve reveals the remarkable story behind a groundbreaking scientific discovery. After being summoned in 1997 to an archaeological site to examine the remains of a five-thousand-year-old man, Bryan Sykes ultimately was able to prove not only that the man was a European but also that he has living relatives in England today. In this lucid, absorbing account, 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. illustrated and includes a mapFrom Publishers Weekly"A traveler from an antique land... lives within us all," claims Sykes, a professor of genetics at Oxford. This unique traveler is mitochondrial DNA, and, as this provocative account illustrates, it can help scientists and archeologists piece together the history of the human race. Mitochondrial DNA is present in every cell in the b

Who reads The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry?

Author

Bryan Sykes

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780393079807

Category

science

Subjects

Fiction, Science, History

Rating

3.97 / 5 (14 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14