The Seven Daughters of Eve
The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry
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The Seven Daughters of Eve
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Narrated by:
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Michael Page
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By:
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Bryan Sykes
About this listen
One of the most dramatic stories of genetic discovery since James Watson's The Double Helix - a work whose scientific and cultural reverberations will be discussed for years to come.
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 both the Ice Man's discovery and his age, which was put at over 5,000 years, fascinated scientists and newspapers throughout the world. But what made Sykes's story particularly revelatory was his successful identification of a genetic descendant of the Ice Man, a woman living in Great Britain today. How was Sykes able to locate a living relative of a man who died thousands of years ago?
In The Seven Daughters of Eve, he gives us a firsthand account of his research into a remarkable gene, which passes undiluted from generation to generation through the maternal line. After plotting thousands of DNA sequences from all over the world, Sykes found that they clustered around a handful of distinct groups. Among Europeans and North American Caucasians, there are, in fact, only seven.
©2001 Bryan Skyes (P)2017 TantorWhat listeners say about The Seven Daughters of Eve
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- Emir
- 29-09-2020
very good
my only criticism is that when he was narrating the stories about the 7 womens lives it was difficult to tell how much was based in fact and how much was artistic licence being used to fill in the gaps. other than that I really quite enjoyed this book and learnt a lot. if you're just interested in the the stories of the women start halfway in the book. somewhere around chapter 14 as the second half is much more fun than the first. the first is full of scientific back story which some will find dull
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- Felicity S
- 09-08-2023
Very interesting
I found a lot of scientific information fascinating. Incredibly well written on "quite a boring subject" to me. I was amazed at how engaging this was given it was written in 2001 and so much has changed in this field. It is divided into two parts, the first is the science and the second is the fiction of what might have been. I was totally absorbed in this book and recommend it fully
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- jimmie
- 24-06-2019
Another amazing journey into prehistory
I enjoyed every minute of this story, though I did find the narrator's extremely plummy accent slightly distracting. The book moves seamlessly between science, contemporary academic processes and deep history. Enriching.
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