The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry Audiobook (Free)

Perhaps one of the most dramatic tales of genetic discovery since James Watson’s The Increase Helix-a function whose scientific and cultural reverberations will be discussed for years to come. In 1994 Professor Bryan Sykes, a respected world authority on DNA and individual evolution, was called directly into examine the freezing remains of a guy stuck in glacial snow in northern Italy. Information of both the Snow Man’s breakthrough and his age group, which was put at over five thousand years, fascinated scientists and newspapers about The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry across the world. But what produced Sykes’s story particularly revelatory was his successful identification of the genetic descendant from the Glaciers Man, a woman living in THE UK today. How was Sykes in a position to find a living relative of a man who died a large number 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 around the globe, Sykes found that they clustered around a small number of distinct organizations. Among Europeans and UNITED STATES Caucasians, there are, in fact, only seven.