Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry » (Reprint)

Bryan Sykes is professor of human genetics at Oxford University. His company, Oxford Ancestors, traces human genetic backgrounds. Sykes’s books include the The New York Times best-selling The Seven Daughters of Eve. He lives in Oxford, England and on the Isle of Skye.

The Seven Daughters of Eve is a thrilling work of science that reveals how biological research can enrich our tangled lives. It is a book that chronicles many of the most exciting developments in genetics over the past decade by a man who is not only a brilliant scientist but also a gifted and thoroughly engaging writer. It ultimately demonstrates how much more we still have to discover about the absorbing story of human evolution.

Salon.com

Sykes has become a superstar in the red-hot field of genetics.