The Seven Daughters of Eve, (Paperback)

from gam3

The begging of this books is quite good. The author seems to have some bones to pick with other scientists and the books suffers from this. I found the sections that describe the lives of the 7 daughters to be quite weak as well, but I did learn a lot from this book and I am very glad that I read...

from Bodagirl

On the whole, I liked this book. It was an interesting concept presented in easily understood terms if you were paying attention while reading. The one beef I had with it was the seven chapters where Sykes romantically describes the lives of the seven clan mothers. He gives then families and expl...

from mrsdanaalbasha

"A traveler from an antique land... lives within us all," claims Sykes, a professor of genetics at Oxford. This unique traveler is mitochondrial DNA, and, as this provocative account illustrates, it can help scientists and archeologists piece together the history of the human race. Mitochondrial ...

from vguy

The popularising science part is excellent, though already going out of date, I would guess. The fiction/speculation section is pretty thin and pointless. I'd rather read fiction; or intelligent speculation properly argued as in Mithen's Singing Neanderthals.

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"A traveler from an antique land... lives within us all," claims Sykes, a professor of genetics at Oxford. This unique traveler is mitochondrial DNA, and, as this provocative account illustrates, it can help scientists and archeologists piece together the history of the human race. Mitochondrial ...