DNA USA A Genetic Portrait of America

Name: DNA USA A Genetic Portrait of America
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ISBN: 9780871404121

ISBN-10: 0871404125

ISBN-13: 9780871404121

Edition: 2012

Authors: Bryan Sykes

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The best-selling author of The Seven Daughters of Eve now turns his sights on the United States, one of the most genetically variegated countries in the world. From the blue-blooded pockets of old-WASP New England to the vast tribal lands of the Navajo, Bryan Sykes takes us on a historical genetic tour, interviewing genealogists, geneticists, anthropologists, and everyday Americans with compelling ancestral stories. His findings suggest: • Of Americans whose ancestors came as slaves, virtually all have some European DNA. • Racial intermixing appears least common among descendants of early New England colonists. • There is clear evidence of Jewish genes among descendants of…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Publication date: 5/14/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 384
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.53" long x 1.31" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English

Bryan Sykes is professor of genetics at the Institute of Molecular Medicine at Oxford University & was the editor of "The Human Inheritance: Genes, Language, & Evolution".



Preface


DNA USA Location Map


First Movement



The Point of Clovis



The Nature of the Evidence



The First Americans



The Mystery of Cluster X



The Europeans



The Genetic Genealogy Revolution



The World's Biggest Surname Project



The Jews



The Africans



"I Am a Zulu"



All My Ancestors


Second Movement



The New Englanders



Heading West



The Great Spirit



The Persuaders



The Call of the Canyon



A Question of Blood



Portraits of America


Third Movement



The Private View


Acknowledgments


Appendix


Notes


Index