Genealogy Books - The Seven Daughters of Eve

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Summary: The Journy of Man is a better book!
Comment: It was on here i read that Spencer Wells's Journey of Man book was better than this conceit-trip by
Bryan Sykes (TSDOE is a book of which I have had the bad misfortune of reading since---one of the
worst reading expeiences of my life). I have since gotten JOM and loved every bit of it. Wells's
book is full of much more important facts and there's also a neat section in JOM on the Aryans. Get
Spencer Wells's far superior book and learn more about the aryans possibly in your genetic
background. Skip this garbage!

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Summary: Not much good comes from this ego trip
Comment: Outside of the following. Sykes, in spite of his egomania, conveys the important fact that the all
important and numerous British have a good deal of mitochondrial DNA of the Syrian kind. This
explains why, say, Charlton Heston (Britsh) looks like Ralph Nader (Syrian). As a British person
myself (now residing in the USA) I find it interesting that I have so much arab blood from 10,000
years ago. Everything else in the book is worthless. Basques and Polynesians are too few in number
the world over so explaining their origins was a total waste (besides what was an explanation of
polynesian dna doing in this book anyway, they aren't even Europeans). Also, we already knew (from
Paabo!) that Neanderthals aren't in our dna (at least not very much). And the whole stone age
historical fiction concept is really dumb and totally fake. An overall rotten book.

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Summary: Absolute stinker of a book. Here's why!
Comment: I am Spanish and damn proud of it. We Spanish colonized a quarter of the USA. Nearly all of Latin
and South America (save notably for Brazil). We deserve to be dealt in depth in this book
genetically in greater detail than this conceited jerk Sykes ever cared to. The closest he comes is
when he discussus the Basques.

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Summary: Enjoyed the Book
Comment: I found the book very interesting, though at times there was a bit too much ego stroking. I've
reviewed the "Journey of Man" by Spencer Wells plus seen his 2 hr PBS show. I feel the 'Wells' book
will probably be better and plan to read it next.

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Summary: Why this book is tragic for the readers
Comment: Many people whose lives are busy and they have little or no time to ever learn of the genetic
origins of man and woman. It's a true pity for those for whom this book will be their only exposure
to the world of genetic origins that it is often an inflated ego trip n the part of it's author
rather than full of interesting and pertinent genetic facts.

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