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	The Seven Daughters of Eve - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Seven Daughters of Eve is a book by Bryan Sykes that presents the theory of mitochondrial genetics in a clear and non-specialistic manner.
		Sykes explains the principles of genetics and human evolution, what are the particularities of mitochondrial genetics, and how he managed to analyse fossilized DNA to genetically link modern humans to prehistoric ancestors.
		The outcome of his research is the division of Europeans into seven families, according to the primeval females whose mitochondrial DNA is shared.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Seven_Daughters_of_Eve (152 words)

	EducationGuardian.co.uk \| higher news \| In search of Eve's daughters
		His new book, The Seven Daughters Of Eve - elaborating his theory that 95% of present-day Europeans can trace their ancestry back to just seven individual women - is distributed with a discount voucher attached.
		Although Sykes maintains that the seven daughters really existed, between 45,000 and 10,000 years ago, in his book he fabricates names and life histories for them, as a way of cutting through the fog of races, populations and peoples.
		The resonant figure of seven women as the founding mothers of 95% of present-day Europeans stems from research published in a 1996 paper in the American Journal of Human Genetics.
	education.guardian.co.uk /higher/news/story/0,9830,505079,00.html (1611 words)

	12/21/01 - Daughters Of Eve, Mothers of Europe (And America) by Steve Sailer
		He often tends to portray himself in The Seven Daughters as a Galileo single-handedly doing battle with the benighted masses of anthropologists and geneticists like Stanford's distinguished L.L. Cavalli-Sforza, who, according to Sykes' not exactly neutral account, just didn't want to admit the importance of his mitochondrial DNA research.
		For $220 he'll trace your DNA (actually, a particular set of your specialized mitochondrial DNA) back to one of the seven Stone Age women who are the ancestors in the all-female line of 95% of all white Europeans.
		Each of the seven daughters is simply the first after the appearance of their mutation to have a daughter who had a daughter who had a daughter and on and on in an unbroken line of female descent down to the present day.
	www.vdare.com /sailer/sykes.htm (1373 words)

	TSAKANIKAS
		The so-called "Seven Daughters of Eve" subgroup represents the seven-clan mothers from whom almost all native Europeans are descended.
		She is referred to as 'Mitochondrial Eve', and is shown on your certificate.
		The vast majority of native Europeans are descendants of 12 clans, which includes the Seven Daughters of Eve.
	www.tsakanikas.net /Maternalclans.htm (2177 words)

	The Seven Daughters of Eve (paperback) (Main Page) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		One of the most dramatic stories of genetic discovery since James Watson's The Double Helix, The Seven Daughters of Eve reveals the remarkable story behind a groundbreaking scientific discovery.
		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.
	www.wwnorton.com /catalog/spring02/032314.htm (231 words)

	Observer \| My mum's older than your mum
		Here is a simple tip for women wanting to establish a dynasty of their own: make sure you have at least two daughters, and hope this tendency to have female offspring lasts for generations.
		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.
		His Daughters of Eve lived between 45,000 and 11,000 years ago, long before agriculture was developed - demonstrating that we must be direct descendants of far more ancient hunter-gatherers: the 'genetic echo' of their ancestry in our cells proves this.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4193433-99945,00.html (626 words)

	Bioscience Explained 1.2 \| Svenska \| Seven daughters of Eve (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		This was initially done using a home-made thermal cycler (christened 'Genesmaid') which incorporated a kettle element and a washing-machine valve taken from Sykes's kitchen.
		Taking their lead from the pioneering work of the late Allan Wilson (who first proposed the concept of an 'African Eve' using mitochondrial data), Sykes and other scientists soon realised that mitochondrial DNA, inherited down the maternal line, provides a invaluable tool for measuring the pulse of evolution and tracing the relationships between people.
		He explains how most Europeans are descended from just seven individuals - a finding that overturned one of the accepted interpretations of the conventional archaeological evidence.
	www.bioscience-explained.org /SE1.2/daughters.htm (395 words)

	Unitarian Universalist Church -- Sermon,
		Though the whole existence (of the 7 daughters of eve) depended entirely on uncontrollable elements of their environment—the movement of herds, the advance and retreat of the ice caps—their day to day responses were a matter of individual choice within those constraints.
		Another, deeper mystery, was that of the Seven Daughters of Eve.
		It is the story of seven women — base mitochondrial DNA patterns who emerged in various stages of the Ice Age and whose daughters moved up, as the Ice thawed, to populate pretty much all of Europe — Xenia, Ursula, Helena, Velda, Tara, Katrina, and Jasmine.
	dcwi.com /~uuf/Sermons/101401.html (3101 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: The Seven Daughters of Eve (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In The Seven Daughters of Eve Bryan Sykes has produced a highly readable scientific autobiography depicting the major events in his career as a human geneticist.
		He was the first to extract DNA from the bones of the 5,000-year-old Iceman, and he solved the problem of the colonisation of Polynesia by tracing modern Polynesians' genetic ancestry.
		The seven daughters themselves, whom he has named Ursula, Xenia, Helena, Velda, Tara, Katrine and Jasmine, are brought to life in rather whimsical little stories describing how their lives might have been before and during the last great Ice Age.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0593047575 (1858 words)

	Geneticist - We Descended From 33 Daughters Of Eve
		Geneticist - We Descended From 33 Daughters Of Eve
		HAY-ON-WYE, Wales (Reuters) - We are all descended from the 33 daughters of Eve.
		After taking several thousand DNA samples, the clan mothers in Europe were narrowed down to ``The Seven Daughters of Eve,'' the title of his new book chronicling his DNA detective work.
	www.rense.com /general10/33.htm (444 words)

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		Before commencing inside, the bride stood on the left of the groom (because it was believed Eve was made from a rib in Adam’s left side) and the procession were asked if they had reason to believe the marriage should be forbidden.
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	The Seven Daughters of Eve (hardcover) (Main Page) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		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.
		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)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: The Seven Daughters of Eve (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		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.
		In this book outlining his theory that almost all Europeans are descended from seven women living thousands of years ago, Sykes achieves the difficult task of presenting fascinating and ground-breaking science in a way that is entertaining and wholly accessible.
		One fault with the book is that the narrative sometimes descends into the fanciful and indulges in fiction: some metaphors are over-flowery and the visualisations of the lives of the 'Seven Daughters' is slightly grating and implausible.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0552152188 (925 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The Seven Daughters of Eve (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		These seven he calls, again perhaps tongue in cheek, "The Daughters of Eve." Third, the oldest of the "daughters of Eve" lived only about 45,000 years ago, the youngest within the past 10,000 years.
		His major theme is that about 95% of the native population of Europe has mitochondrial DNA that falls into seven easily distinguishable sequences, and he interprets this to mean that almost every native European is descended from one of seven different women.
		The title of the book comes from the seven women deduced to be ancestors of 95% of native Europeans, and it refers to a series of seven dreadful chapters near the end of the book in which Sykes writes fictional biographies of these women.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0393323145?v=glance (3625 words)

	maternal DNA test results
		Wallace's mitochondrial DNA lineages are "haplogroups" but known as "daughters of Eve," because all of the lineages are branches of the trunk that stems from the mitochondrial Eve.
		Every European can trace his or her evolutionary history back to the seven ancestral mother groups, also referred to as the Seven European Daughters of Eve.
		What is amazing is that all seven of the genetic groups appear to be descended from the Lara clan, one of three clans that still exist today in Africa.
	mctiernan.com /mtdna.htm (1237 words)

	Salon.com Books \| "The Seven Daughters of Eve" by Bryan Sykes
		From Wales to the South Pacific, we're all descended from seven prehistoric women, according to revolutionary new genetic discoveries.
		Sykes believes that about 90 percent of Europeans can trace their maternal ancestry back to one of seven specific women, the most recent of whom lived about 10,000 years ago and the eldest about 45,000 years ago.
		The only thing we know for sure about the mitochondrial Eve is that she had at least two daughters who themselves had children.
	www.salon.com /books/review/2001/08/06/eve?CP=RDF&DN=310 (845 words)

	Cemetery-Celeb
		His claim that almost everyone of European descent can trace an unbroken genetic link to one of only seven women, the ‘Seven Daughters of Eve’, who lived tens of thousands of years ago, has startled the anthropologists.
		Looking at the time needed for these clusters to evolve, Sykes and his colleagues quickly disposed of the accepted idea of resident European hunter/ gatherer societies being replaced by an incoming tide of Neolithic farmers from the Middle East.
		Descent from the Seven Daughters is strictly via the female line.
	www.wisenet-australia.org /Cemetery-Celeb.htm (664 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The third, and maybe most interesting element, is a fictional (speculative), cultural anthropologic account of his Seven Daughters of Eve, the end result of his initial discoveries.
		In "The Seven Daughters of Eve," Bryan Sykes broadens the view of human evolution, tracing migrations through time and around the globe.
		The heart of the book is the fictionalized reconstruction of the lives of the seven European "clan mothers" discovered by mitochondrial DNA analysis.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0393323145 (1443 words)

	ANTH 110 — ESSAY QUESTIONS FOR “SEVEN DAUGHTERS OF EVE” BY SYKES
		For chapters, 15-21 on the ‘daughters of Eve’: (a) compare and contrast ‘Jasmine’ (Chp.
		For each of the three daughters discuss her time period, location, characteristics, environment, and lifestyle.
		What was the relative contribution of each of the three daughters to the modern European population?
	www.chss.iup.edu /anthropology/courses/TC110/Sykes.htm (659 words)

	DNA and Family History: How Genetic Testing Can Advance Your Genealogical Research a quality genealogy research tool. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Major books include: Seven Daughters of Eve, Adam's Curse, Trace your Roots with DNA, and DNA and Family History.
		The punch line of this book is that all maternal lines can be traced back to seven theoretic women who lived at different places in the worlds at different times.
		If you looking for one day's worth of beach reading, try Seven Daughters of Eve or Spencer Wells, Journey of Man. Also consider getting these books at the library as these seminal works are quick reads that you don't need cluttering up your shelves.
	www.familyseekers.org /genealogy-books/isbn1550025368.html (929 words)

	A Mixed Blog: Seven Daughters of Eve (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		He particularly likes to discuss the groundbreaking book "Seven Daughters of Eve" when doing so, pointing out that all "white" Europeans can trace their lineage to seven different Eurasian population groups.
		But, what Sailer neglects to disclose, willfully I might add, is that the author of the book goes on to point out that all seven tribes of Europe can then be traced to one "mother" in Africa.
		It hurts me cos i have a biracial daughter - and thats how many people see her - but she is simply human like everyone else.
	www.multiracial.com /archives/000757.html (416 words)

	Find Free Essays on Seven daughters of eve
		In his book The Seven Daughters of Eve, Professor Bryan Sykes attempts to explore the mysterious field of human evolution and connect the modern population to their distant ancestors.
		The general theory Sykes constructed, that modern humans were derived from one or a few ancient females that diverged and spread to the continents, is consistent with a number of pieces of archeological and biological evidence.
		In The Seven Daughters of Eve, Sykes concludes that the evidence extracted from mitochondrial DNA supports the “Out of Africa Hypothesis” and argues that all modern men were derived from “only one ancestor, the mother of all Africa and the rest of the world.” (Sykes, 2001, p.276).
	www.findfreeessays.com /show_essay/14733.html (525 words)

	Salon.com Books \| "The Seven Daughters of Eve" by Bryan Sykes
		He has established to a near 100 percent certainty that the bones found in 1991 in a birch forest outside the Russian village of Ekaterinburg were indeed those of Czar Nicholas II and his family, and that Anna Anderson, the woman who long claimed to be the Grand Duchess Anastasia, indeed was not.
		Sykes has both an ingrained sense of how to make headlines and an unforced ability to explain the technical side of his work in layperson's terms, both of which probably drive his scientific rivals nuts.
		Along the way, he adds, he solved one of the great mysteries of paleoanthropology, establishing genetically that Polynesians migrated eastward from Southeast Asia rather than westward from South America (and that, since they traveled against the prevailing winds, they must be ranked among the greatest mariners the world has ever known).
	archive.salon.com /books/review/2001/08/06/eve/print.html (1518 words)

	A3243G - Book Review - The Seven Daughters Of Eve. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		He went on to analyse many thousands of samples and to deduce that virtually all Europeans, are descended from just seven women.
		He concludes by reminding us how closely we are all related to each other, regardless of skin colour or language spoken.
		The Seven Daughters of Eve is a wonderful read, technical enough where needed, but a flowing account of one scientist's involvement with mtDNA.
	www.a3243g.com /book_the_seven_daughters_of_eve.asp (458 words)

	mtDNA for the Daughters and Granddaughters of L. David Roper
		The Cambridge Reference Sequence (CRS) is the sequence of base pairs for an arbitrary person to which all other persons are compared.
		I have determined the mtDNA pattern for my daughters and their matrilineal line by having one of my granddaughters provide the cheek cells.
		Their earliest known maternal ancestor is Caroline Theiss.
	www.roperld.com /mtDNAdaughters.htm (399 words)

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