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Title: The Seven Daughters of Eve by Bryan Sykes ISBN: 0-393-32314-5 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: May, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.85 (74 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: So, from which daughter of Eve am I decended from?
Comment: I loved this book. I have always been interested in man's origins. This book traces persons of European decent to 7 women. Even for someone such as myself that has only a passing knowledge of genetics this was an easy informative read. This book was written for a broad audience. This is a great easy read for anyone who has an interest in evolution, genetics, or human history.
Rating: 4
Summary: Genetics 101: Science Blends into Fiction
Comment: Bryan Sykes in THE SEVEN DAUGHTERS OF EVE tackles the ever interesting question about the origins of humanity. Where did we of the 20th Century come from? Sykes likes to use decision trees to show how one generation leads to the next. He acknowledges that since documented geneological records are notoriously unreliable, to date human evolution through the ages, a more reliable indicator was needed. In mitochondrial DNA, Sykes has found just such a barometer. Most of the early chapters are full of college level genetics that indicate that human beings can unerringly trace their lineage even over many milennia through the use of mitochondrial DNA that is passed only from mother to daughter. Sykes asserts that the majority of Europeans owe their ancestry to seven clearly identified females who lived in Europe at various times ranging from 50,000 years to 10,000 years ago. His evidence is compelling. Sykes strays from hard evidence to fiction, however, as he attempts to recreate a fanciful 'history' for each woman whom he assigns names like Ursula, Helena, and Katrine. These stories are nonsense, of course, and detract from his core thesis. Yet, his masterful explanation of the mechanics of DNA, while occasionally dragging, still point out that the physical differences between human beings are to be seen as more falsely dramatic than truly individuating. Sykes suggests that we today who are the descendants of these Eves ought to acknowledge our kinships rather than squabble over our dissimilarities.
Rating: 1
Summary: Lousy book. The Journey of Man is better.
Comment: Spencer Wells wrote The Journey of Man book and Wells doesn't spend page after page of it dwelling on his own life story as Sykes does in his crummy Seven Daughters of Eve. Unlike SDOE, JOM is about the Y-chromosome studies of man rather than the mitoichondrial DNA studies of women! More interesting facts are in JOM than this dreck!
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Title: The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey by Spencer Wells ISBN: 069111532X Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Mapping Human History: Discovering the Past Through Our Genes by Steve Olson ISBN: 0618091572 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 15 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Adam's Curse: A Future without Men by Bryan Sykes ISBN: 0393058964 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: April, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Genes, Peoples, and Languages by Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Mark Seielstad ISBN: 0520228731 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 07 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Origin of Language : Tracing the Evolution of the Mother Tongue by Merritt Ruhlen ISBN: 0471159638 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: August, 1996 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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