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The Seven Daughters of Eve

Bryan Sykes

  • 319 pages · about 5 hours
  • First published 2001
  • 11 editions
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1 About this book

"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.".

  • Evolution
  • Human evolution
  • Human-animal relationships
  • Genetics
  • Women
  • Human genetics

2 About Bryan Sykes

1947–2020

Bryan Clifford Sykes (9 September 1947 – 10 December 2020) was a British geneticist, university professor, popular-science writer, and genetic genealogy company executive. He received a fellowship at Wolfson College and a personal chair, later emeritus professorship, in human genetics at the University of Oxford. Sykes published the first report on retrieving DNA from ancient bone (Nature, 1989).

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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