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	Science Show - 8 November 2003 - Disappearing X
		Bryan Sykes: That's right, it is passed on intact, you can actually identify changes that have happened since the original Mr Sykes, in this case, and just slight changes, small mutations and that allows you to get some sort of time estimate when the original male ancestor lived.
		Bryan Sykes: There's only 27 genes, yes, but the variation which is most useful is not actually in the genes, it's in other parts of the Y chromosome outside the active genes.
		Bryan Sykes: There's no doubt that the Y chromosome over many millions of years has been deteriorating, it has lost most of its genes, and that's for two reasons really.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/scienceshow/stories/2003/977072.htm (1958 words)

	Amazon.de: Adam's Curse: A Future Without Men: English Books: Bryan Sykes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Sykes' provocative and quite personal book is likely to be unpopular among science readers who prefer their biology divorced from sociology, but his points taken in context will be difficult to refute.
		Sykes shows that many members of several Scottish clans (most notably the Macdonalds) can be traced via their Y chromosomes back to a common ancestor.
		Sykes concludes by noting that, as evidenced by declining sperm counts and high percentages of abnormal sperm, among other variables, the Y chromosome is a genetic mess and is deteriorating so quickly that men could become extinct.
	www.amazon.de /Adams-Curse-Future-Without-Men/dp/0393058964 (667 words)

	Amazon.ca: Adams Curse: Books: Bryan Sykes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Bryan Sykes is a great storyteller and manages to make the science of genetics interesting with his ability to surround the subject with his related stories.
		Sykes would like you to believe that it is for it sure has all the trappings of science, without any of the rigor.
		Finally, Sykes suggests that a solution to the problem is to do away with men using some form of embryonic fusion for reproduction and he merely passes it off as that simple.
	www.amazon.ca /Adams-Curse-Bryan-Sykes/dp/0393326802 (2445 words)

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		Bryan Sykes, Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Oxford, is one of the world’s leading geneticists.
		Since then, Professor Sykes has been called in as the leading international authority to examine several high-profile cases, such as the Ice Man, Cheddar Man, and the many individuals claiming to be members of the Russian royal family.
		Professor of Human Genetics, Bryan Sykes (oxfordancestors), discussed his alarming forecast that male extinction is inevitable, due to the the rapidly decaying “Y” chromosome.
	www.coasttocoastam.com /guests/780.html (258 words)

	Adam's curse : a future without men by Bryan Sykes \| LibraryThing
		Sykes has done it again with this follow-up of his "Seven Daughters of Eve." "Adam's Curse" is a terrific survey of the latest findings on human genetics as told through the Y chromosome, inherited exclusively through one's father.
		But mostly it is the story of the application of modern genetics to the varied populations of the world, the story of their migrations and conquests, and the struggle of the Y chromosome to survive.
		Sykes' distinct approach is to apply some relatively simple molecular probes to Y chromosomes obtained from many individuals in a variety of populations on a fairly big scale, rather than the other important task, carried on by a myriad of scientists, of trying to understand all the biological minutiae of a single prototypical human.
	www.librarything.com /work.php?book=1215636 (923 words)

	The Seven Daughters of Eve (paperback) (Main Page) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		After being summoned in 1997 to an archaeological site to examine the remains of a five-thousand-year-old man, Bryan Sykes ultimately was able to prove not only that the man was a European but also that he has living relatives in England today.
		In this lucid, absorbing account, Sykes reveals how the identification of a particular strand of DNA that passes unbroken through the maternal line allows scientists to trace our genetic makeup all the way back to prehistoric times, to seven primeval women, the Seven Daughters of Eve.
		Bryan Sykes is professor of genetics at the Institute of Molecular Medicine at Oxford University and was the editor of The Human Inheritance: Genes, Language, and Evolution.
	www.wwnorton.com /catalog/spring02/032314.htm (231 words)

	Amazon.de: The Seven Daughters of Eve: English Books: Bryan Sykes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		To trace this lineage Sykes and his team used mitochondria, tiny structures within each cell, which are passed on purely down the maternal line.
		The science is clearly explained and Sykes gives a good flavour of the life of a working scientist in a series of well-chosen anecdotes, all written in a warm, engaging style.
		In a similar manner, Sykes analyzed samples from native Europeans to determine that modern humans are not at all related to Neanderthals.
	www.amazon.de /Seven-Daughters-Eve-Bryan-Sykes/dp/0552152188 (692 words)

	Amazon.com: Adam's Curse: A Future without Men: Books: Bryan Sykes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Bryan Sykes belongs to a growing number of scientists who think that we are as interested in them as we are in their science.
		Sykes' work in human genetics is truly fascinating but is hidden beneath endless descriptions of his own family tree, the architecture of the buildings he works in, his train rides, his musings as he stares out of his office window, and an inexhaustible number of other tediums that his publisher should have edited out.
		Sykes believes in William Hamilton's theories popularised by Dawkins that the gene is the ultimate unit of selection.
	www.amazon.com /Adams-Curse-Future-without-Men/dp/0393058964 (3168 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Blood of the Isles: Books: Bryan Sykes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Bryan Sykes, the world's first genetic archaeologist, takes us on a journey around the family tree of Britain and Ireland, to reveal how our tribal history still colours the country today.
		In the "Seven Daughters", Sykes explored the theme that most people of European origin are descended from seven clan mothers at varying times in the past 40,000 years.
		If you have not read the Seven Daughters, the first chapters provide a useful background to Sykes research methods and how these developed- if you have read the previous books this can be a bit repetetive, although in fairness he does try and keep this to the minimum required for the first time reader.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Blood-Isles-Bryan-Sykes/dp/0593056523 (1461 words)

	Amazon.com: The Seven Daughters of Eve: Books: Bryan Sykes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Sykes (genetics, Oxford Univ.; editor, Human Inheritance: Genes, Language, and Evolution) is passionate about his work in decoding mitochondrial DNA and about using this knowledge to trace the path of human evolution.
		Sykes is at his descriptive best when dealing with the fascinating details of his own research and field work.
		Sykes has put together a chart of these functionally trivial but genealogically interesting mutations that allow him to state, for example, that the woman who claimed to be Anastasia Romanov (who was portrayed by Ingrid Bergman in her Oscar-winning performance in Anastasia) could not have been the daughter of the Czarina murdered by Lenin.
	www.amazon.com /Seven-Daughters-Eve-Bryan-Sykes/dp/0393323145 (3463 words)

	Observer review: The Seven Daughters of Eve by Bryan Sykes \| Review \| The Observer
		Sykes, professor of human genetics at Oxford, is an expert on mitochondrial DNA, a type of genetic material we inherit only from our mothers, and which he has exploited to establish maternal family trees for the human race.
		The answer was the hamster, Sykes realised - after discovering the world's entire population came from a single female captured by a 1930 zoological expedition to Syria.
		It's all great fun, and while Sykes clearly exaggerates the role played by his beloved mitochondrial DNA in these and other exploits, there is no doubt he has achieved some breathtaking work.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,,497132,00.html (685 words)

	OXFORD ANCESTORS : The Team - Putting the genes in genealogy - DNA sequencing, Family Tree Searches, Your AncestryDNA ...
		Bryan is the Founder of Oxford Ancestors and is a Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Oxford.
		Using his own surname, Bryan was the first to show the astonishingly close connection between surnames and Y-chromosomes, which became the basis for our Y-Line™ service.
		Bryan lives in Oxford and on the Isle of Skye.
	www.oxfordancestors.com /the-team.html (527 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Seven Daughters of Eve: Books: Bryan Sykes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Sykes has a gift of explaining complex notions clearly, and for that alone, he deserves the five stars.
		Bryan Sykes The Seven Daughters of Eve has brought one aspect of the dramatic potential of DNA to our armchairs.
		What is intriguing about Bryan Sykes' book is his assertion that he can trace all Europeans to just one of seven women.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Seven-Daughters-Eve-Bryan-Sykes/dp/0552152188 (1894 words)

	The Seven Daughters of Eve by Bryan Sykes
		Bryan Sykes and his team have given us a special look at our past, and present - we feel the presence of long passed grandmothers at though they were still among us.
		It is as if the people writing the reviews think that they know more than this author, Bryan Sykes, who is a professor of genetics at the Institute of Molecular Medicine at Oxford University and was the editor of The Human Inheritance, Genes, Language, and Evolution.
		In 1994, Professor 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.
	www.book-summary-review.com /The-Seven-Daughters-of-Eve-0393323145.htm (996 words)

	The Seven Daughters of Eve (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		First of all, Sykes drags out his personal struggles with other researchers in the middle of the book, which is where it gets really boring.
		Really, what this means are a series of remembrances regarding his early work, his colleagues, his conferences, his relationship with the media, and the political struggle of changing the mind of the scientific community.
		Sykes' doesn't quite have the wit or the élan to match that work.
	www.booklan.com /science/general/book_331.html (676 words)

	Powell's Books - The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry by Bryan Sykes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		I was fascinated with the inventiveness and creativity of Sykes and his team of researchers in devising gizmos to, for example, drill into the tooth of a very, very old skeleton.
		Read the book and be prepared to laugh out loud, as I did, when you get to "Cheddar Man speaks." Sykes treats the foibles of the living with as much care and compassion as he handles the bones of the thousand plus year old dead.
		My only caveat is that he focuses on Europe for most of the book and rushes a bit at the end to cover the rest of the world so as to be truly writing about "our" genetic ancestry.
	www.powells.com /biblio?isbn=0393323145 (431 words)

	The New York Times > Science > A Conversation With Bryan Sykes: Is Genghis Khan an Ancestor? Mr. DNA Knows
		Sykes, a human genetics professor at Oxford University and a science adviser to the British House of Commons, loves showing people the astonishing history hidden in their DNA.
		At the moment, Dr. Sykes is collecting swabs from everyone he meets named "MacDonald," to determine the migratory patterns of each branch of the Scottish clan.
		Playful projects of this sort might obscure the fact that Dr. Sykes, 56, is one of the world's most acclaimed geneticists.
	www.nytimes.com /2004/06/08/science/08conv.html?ex=1402027200&en=0a3548b6503d517e&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND (785 words)

	The Seven Daughters of Eve (hardcover) (Main Page) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		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.
		This conclusion was staggering: almost everyone of native European descent, wherever they may live throughout the world, can trace their ancestry back to one of seven women, the Seven Daughters of Eve.
		In reading the stories of these seven women, we learn exactly how our origins can be traced, how and where our ancient genetic ancestors lived, and how we are each living proof of the almost indestructible strands of DNA, which have survived over so many thousands of years.
	www.wwnorton.com /catalog/spring01/002018.htm (459 words)

	Book Review - Seven Daughters of Eve by Bryan Sykes
		The scientific quest to understand human origins is a popular topic with the lay public as many of us are curious about who we are and where we came from as a species.
		Sykes provides an extraordinary picture of the origins and global migrations of Homo sapiens sapiens, modern humans, us.
		Once Sykes answers the last question above based on his genetic studies, he provides seven vivid narratives, one for each of the seven "founding mothers" he calls Helena, Jasmine, Katrine, Tara, Ursula, Velda, and Xenia.
	www.workingdogweb.com /SevenDaughters.htm (677 words)

	Bokklubben Â» The Seven Daughters of Eve - Bryan Sykes
		OmtaleIn 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.
		But what made the story particularly extraordinary was that Professor Sykes was also able to track down a living generic relative of the Ice Man, a woman living in Britain today.
		In The Seven Daughters of Eve, Bryan Sykes gives us a first hand account of his research into a remarkable gene which passes undiluted from generation to generation through the maternal line and shows how it is being used to track our genetic ancestors through time and space.
	www.bokklubben.no /SamboWeb/produkt.do?produktId=939155 (323 words)

	Adam's Curse -- A Future Without Men -- Bryan Sykes
		Bryan Sykes examines the validity of these reports, focusing on the defining characteristic of men: the Y chromosome in their DNA.
		Guiding his readers through chapters like "The Blood of Vikings" and "Ribbons of Life," Sykes blends natural history with scientific fact, elucidating the biology of sexual reproduction, modern genetics, and evolutionary biology.
		He reveals that, while the Y chromosome makes man's existence possible, it also carries within it the seeds of his destruction.
	www.frontlist.com /detail/0393058964 (163 words)

	Bryan Sykes Message Board
		One of my pet peeves of all 'peeves' is when someone learned and respected uses his/her knowledge to advance the agenda of his personal theories.
		There is no one book or one theory that can explain all of our past short of reading everything one finds and trying then to sort out the wheat from the chaff.
		What I believe, based on what I've read so far of professor Syke's work, is that he is offering a magic bullet to history.
	www.allreaders.com /Board.asp?BoardID=11089 (1323 words)

	The Human Inheritance : Genes, Languages… by Bryan Sykes \| LibraryThing
		The Human Inheritance : Genes, Languages… by Bryan Sykes
		The Seven Daughters of Eve by Bryan Sykes (Amazon
		Saxons, Vikings, and Celts: The Genetic Roots of Britain and Ireland by Bryan Sykes (Amazon
	www.librarything.com /work.php?book=998314 (115 words)

	Ancestry.co.uk - Dr. Bryan Sykes Named as GENTECH Speaker
		The GENTECH organizers have found a very suitable replacement: Dr. Bryan Sykes, author of the best-selling book, "The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry." Sykes, a professor of genetics at the Institute of Molecular Medicine at Oxford University, will address the GENTECH gathering with the topic, "The Tsar and I."
		A popular international speaker and director of www.oxfordancestors.com, Dr. Sykes has been featured on the Today show on NBC-TV and was an enormously popular guest at the New England Historic Genealogical Society’s summer 2001 conference in Farmington, Connecticut.
		I suspect that Dr. Sykes will deliver a fascinating presentation on genetic lineages and the latest developments in human genetics research.
	www.ancestry.co.uk /learn/library/article.aspx?article=4703 (352 words)

	Scoop: Professor Bryan Sykes - Genetics as History
		Described in Professor Sykes' book, "The Seven Daughters of Eve", the framework reveals that almost everyone whose maternal routes lie in Europe is descended from one of seven clan mothers.
		At his lectures around New Zealand Professor Sykes will look at how the study of mitochondrial DNA has demolished any scientific basis for racism, revised our knowledge of the colonisation of the Pacific, and changed how we viewed Homo sapiens' settlement of Europe, a continent once dominated by the Neanderthals.
		The Royal Society, in partnership with the British High Commission and British Council New Zealand, is hosting additional lectures in Dunedin (with UNESCO), Christchurch, Nelson, Wellington and Palmerston North as part of the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the structure of DNA.
	www.scoop.co.nz /stories/SC0310/S00096.htm (1632 words)

	Qualifications of Dr Bryan Sykes -- DNA expert - Bigfoot Forums
		Qualifications of Dr Bryan Sykes -- DNA expert - Bigfoot Forums
		The GENTECH organizers have found a very suitable replacement: Dr. Bryan Sykes, author of the
		Sykes, a professor of genetics at the Institute of Molecular Medicine at Oxford University, will address
	www.bigfootforums.com /index.php?showtopic=437 (412 words)

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