An edition of The Seven Daughters of Eve (2001)

The Seven Daughters of Eve

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An edition of The Seven Daughters of Eve (2001)

The Seven Daughters of Eve

  • 3.00 ·
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  • 5 Currently reading
  • 6 Have read

"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.

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Publisher
Corgi Adult
Pages
368

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Cover of: The Seven Daughters of Eve
The Seven Daughters of Eve
September 1, 2004, Corgi Adult
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Cover of: The Seven Daughters of Eve
The Seven Daughters of Eve
May 2002, W. W. Norton & Company
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Cover of: The seven daughters of Eve
The seven daughters of Eve
2001, Bantam Press, Norton
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First Sentence

"On Thursday 19 September 1991 Erika and Helmut Simon, two experienced climbers from Nuremberg in Germany, were nearing the end of their walking holiday in the Italian Alps."

Classifications

Library of Congress
QH390

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Number of pages
368
Dimensions
7.6 x 5 x 1 inches
Weight
9.1 ounces

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL7815479M
Internet Archive
sevendaughtersof0000brya
ISBN 10
0552152188
ISBN 13
9780552152181
Library Thing
6049
Goodreads
6992

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