Bryan Sykes

Bryan Sykes (born September 9, 1947 ) is a British professor of human genetics at Oxford University . He was a fellow of Wolfson College .

In Syke's popular book The Seven Daughters of Eve , he postulates that the descent of all Europeans is based on seven “primordial mothers”, whom he named Ursula (approx. 11%), Xenia (approx. 6%), Tara (approx. 9%), Helena ( approx. 47%), Katrine (approx. 6%), Velda (approx. 5%) and Jasmin (approx. 17%). They are said to have lived in Europe around 45,000 (Ursula) or around 10,000 (Jasmin) years ago.
Each of the seven great mothers corresponds to one of the human mitochondrial haplogroups : haplogroup U , haplogroup X , haplogroup T , haplogroup H , haplogroup V , haplogroup K, and haplogroup J

Sykes tested the mitochondrial DNA of thousands of Europeans and found only seven basic patterns. It also seems that all “primordial mothers” can be traced back to an African woman from the so-called Lara family (see human expansion ).

Furthermore, because he discovered that the mitochondrial DNA of these two ethnic groups is almost identical, Sykes supports the thesis that most of the inhabitants of the British Isles are descended from Spanish coastal inhabitants. Since mitochondrial DNA is only inherited from the mother, this does not contradict the additional descent from (mostly male) Anglo-Saxon or Norman invaders.

Works

• The Human Inheritance: Genes, Language, and Evolution . Oxford University Press, 1999, ISBN 0-19-850274-5 .
• The seven daughters of Eve . Lübbe-Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach 2001, ISBN 3-7857-2060-2 .
• No future for Adam . Lübbe-Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach 2003. ISBN 3-7857-2119-6 .
• Blood of the Isles: Exploring the Genetic Roots of Our Tribal History . Bantam, 2005, ISBN 0-593-05652-3 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Bryan Sykes in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Do the British come from Spaniards? WWW: http://www.aerztezeitung.de/panorama/auch_das_noch/?sid=419781