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Bryan Sykes


Born
in The United Kingdom
September 09, 1947

Died
December 10, 2020

Genre
Science


Bryan Clifford Sykes was a renowned British geneticist and science writer who served as a Fellow of Wolfson College and Emeritus Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Oxford. He was a pioneering researcher in the field of ancient DNA and was among the first to retrieve DNA from ancient human remains, with his landmark 1989 study published in Nature. He played a significant role in high-profile cases, including the analysis of DNA from Ötzi the Iceman.
Sykes gained widespread recognition for his popular science books, especially The Seven Daughters of Eve (2001), in which he explained how mitochondrial DNA could trace maternal ancestry back to prehistoric women, whom he described as "clan mothers". In Blood of the Isles (2006), he ...more

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Average rating: 3.92 · 12,210 ratings · 1,363 reviews · 12 distinct works • Similar authors
The Seven Daughters of Eve:...
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Saxons, Vikings, and Celts:...
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Adam's Curse: The Science T...
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DNA USA: A Genetic Biograph...
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Once a Wolf: The Science Be...
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Bigfoot, Yeti, and the Last...
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The Human Inheritance: Gene...
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One world-many genes: The f...
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Blood of the Isles
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アダムの呪い
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“Myths have a very long memory.”
― Bryan Sykes, Saxons, Vikings, and Celts: The Genetic Roots of Britain and Ireland
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“Oral myths are closer to the genetic conclusions than the often ambiguous scientific evidence of archaeology.”
― Bryan Sykes, Saxons, Vikings, and Celts: The Genetic Roots of Britain and Ireland
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“Where Eve chooses to go, Adam is bound to travel.”
― Bryan Sykes
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