DNA USA A Genetic Portrait of America

by Sykes, Bryan

• ISBN13: 9780871404121
• ISBN10: 0871404125
• Edition: 00
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-05-14
• Publisher: Liveright

Summary

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 an impressive contribution to how we perceive race, this is a fascinating book about what it means to be American.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
DNA USA Location Map	p. xii
First Movement
The Point of Clovis	p. 3
The Nature of the Evidence	p. 18
The First Americans	p. 28
The Mystery of Cluster X	p. 46
The Europeans	p. 62
The Genetic Genealogy Revolution	p. 72
The World's Biggest Surname Project	p. 94
The Jews	p. 112
The Africans	p. 128
"I Am a Zulu"	p. 145
All My Ancestors	p. 155
Second Movement
The New Englanders	p. 177
Heading West	p. 197
The Great Spirit	p. 212
The Persuaders	p. 227
The Call of the Canyon	p. 256
A Question of Blood	p. 270
Portraits of America	p. 285
Third Movement
The Private View	p. 307
Acknowledgments	p. 323
Appendix	p. 327
Notes	p. 343
Index	p. 347
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