The Blood of the Isles by Bryan Sykes
Takes us on a journey around the family tree of Britain and Ireland. This book looks at a research programme, set out to test the DNA of over 10,000 volunteers, with the specific aim of answering this question: What is our modern genetic make-up? The evidence revealed often very different stories to the conventional accounts coming from history.
Bryan Sykes is Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Oxford, has had a remarkable scientific career in genetics. After undertaking medical research into the causes of inherited bone disease, he set out to discover if DNA, the genetic material, could possibly survive in ancient bones. It did and he was the first to report on the recovery of ancient DNA from archaeological bone in the journal "Nature" in 1989. 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 surviving members of the Russian Royal Family. He is the author of The Seven Daughters of Eve and Adam's Curse.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780593056523 |
| ISBN 10 | 0593056523 |
| Title | The Blood of the Isles |
| Author | Bryan Sykes |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Year published | 2006-09-12 |
| Number of pages | 400 |
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