DNA USA: A Genetic Portrait of America

DNA USA: A Genetic Portrait of America

by Bryan Sykes
DNA USA: A Genetic Portrait of America

DNA USA: A Genetic Portrait of America

by Bryan Sykes

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Overview

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

The best-selling author of The Seven Daughters of Eve now turns his sights on the United States, one of the most genetically variegated countries in the world. From the blue-blooded pockets of old-WASP New England to the vast tribal lands of the Navajo, Bryan Sykes takes us on a historical genetic tour, interviewing genealogists, geneticists, anthropologists, and everyday Americans with compelling ancestral stories. His findings suggest:

     • Of Americans whose ancestors came as slaves, virtually all have some European DNA.
     • Racial intermixing appears least common among descendants of early New England colonists.
     • There is clear evidence of Jewish genes among descendants of southwestern Spanish Catholics.
     • Among white Americans, evidence of African DNA is most common in the South.
     • European genes appeared among Native Americans as early as ten thousand years ago.

An unprecedented look into America's genetic mosaic and how we perceive race, DNA USA challenges the very notion of what we think it means to be American.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780871404763
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Publication date: 05/07/2012
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 384
File size: 8 MB

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.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

DNA USA Location Map xii

First Movement

1 The Point of Clovis 3

2 The Nature of the Evidence 18

3 The First Americans 28

4 The Mystery of Cluster X 46

5 The Europeans 62

6 The Genetic Genealogy Revolution 72

7 The World's Biggest Surname Project 94

8 The Jews 112

9 The Africans 128

10 "I Am a Zulu" 145

11 All My Ancestors 155

Second Movement

12 The New Englanders 177

13 Heading West 197

14 The Great Spirit 212

15 The Persuaders 227

16 The Call of the Canyon 256

17 A Question of Blood 270

18 Portraits of America 285

Third Movement

19 The Private View 307

Acknowledgments 323

Appendix 327

Notes 343

Index 347

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