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It's ironic that this proof of sisterhood comes from a male author whose book concludes with a vision of "all my foremothers" filling a large auditorium. He shows how every person of European descent living anywhere in the world has one of seven women as their ultimate ancestress in the maternal line. One of these women is also the ultimate mother of 10% of Native Americans, & he creates an imaginative hypothesis of how this might have come about. This book combines science & creative use of anthropological data to construct a plausible "biography" of each of the seven women. He also discusses MDNA research into origins of people in Japan, Australia, and other parts of the world. At the time the book was published, 21 "foremothers" had been discovered, all of them descendants of "the African Eve." Sykes has set up a scientific foundation that will analyze MDNA from a cheek-swab to tell you which "daughter of Eve" you are descended from. The result may surprise you!
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The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry by Bryan Sykes
Patricia R., January 14, 2010
It's ironic that this proof of sisterhood comes from a male author whose book concludes with a vision of "all my foremothers" filling a large auditorium. He shows how every person of European descent living anywhere in the world has one of seven women as their ultimate ancestress in the maternal line. One of these women is also the ultimate mother of 10% of Native Americans, & he creates an imaginative hypothesis of how this might have come about. This book combines science & creative use of anthropological data to construct a plausible "biography" of each of the seven women. He also discusses MDNA research into origins of people in Japan, Australia, and other parts of the world. At the time the book was published, 21 "foremothers" had been discovered, all of them descendants of "the African Eve." Sykes has set up a scientific foundation that will analyze MDNA from a cheek-swab to tell you which "daughter of Eve" you are descended from. The result may surprise you!(4 of 4 readers found this comment helpful)