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Bryan sykes is professor of human genetics at the university of oxford and has had a remarkable scientific career in genetics. Bryan sykes is a professor of human genetics at oxford university. Saxons, vikings, and celts, which resulted from a systematic tenyear dna survey of more than 10,000 volunteers, traces the true genetic makeup of the british isles and its descendants, taking readers from the pontnewydd cave in north wales to the resting place of the red lady. Like y, adams curse centres on sexual conflict, here the war between.
A story of sex, genetics, and the extinction of men is a 2003 book by oxford university human genetics professor bryan sykes expounding his hypothesis that with the declining sperm count in men and the continual atrophy of the y chromosome, within 5,000 generations approximately 125,000 years men shall become extinct. After undertaking medical research into the causes of inherited bone disease, he discovered dna could survive in ancient bones, and he was the first to report on the recovery of ancient dna from archaeological bones in the journal, nature, in 1989. Adams curse by bryan sykes penguin books australia. In adams curse, sykes turns his attention to the other piece of our human dna which avoids recombination. By the nationally bestselling author of the seven daughters of eve, adams curse investigates the ultimate evolutionary crisis. An informative book told in an amusing anecdotal style. See all books authored by bryan sykes, including the seven daughters of eve.