DNA USA - A Genetic Portrait of America

Bryan Sykes, one of the world's leading geneticists and best-selling author of The Seven Daughters of Eve, sets his sights on America, one of the most genetically variegated countries in the world. Sykes embarks on a road trip-DNA testing kit in tow-interviewing genealogists, anthropologists, and everyday Americans, tracing America's history along a double helix that stretches from the last Ice Age to the present day. What emerges is an unprecedented look into America's genetic mosaic that challenges the very notion of how we perceive race and what it means to be an American.

About the author

Bryan Sykes, professor of human genetics at Oxford University, pioneered the use of DNA in exploring the human past. He is the author of Saxons, Vikings, and Celts and the New York Times bestseller The Seven Daughters of Eve.

Summary

Crisscrossing the continent, a renowned geneticist provides a groundbreaking examination of America through its DNA.

Product details

• Authors: Bryan Sykes, Bryan (Oxford Ancestors) Sykes, Sykes Bryan
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.06.2013
• EAN: 9780871403582
• ISBN: 978-0-87140-358-2
• Dimensions: 147 mm x 229 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 436 g
• Illustrations: 8 pages of color; 8 pages of black-and-white illustrations
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Genetics, genetic engineering; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Demography, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics, United States of America, USA, Population & demography, Population and Demography, Genetics (non-medical)