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Dna usa : a genetic portrait of America / Bryan Sykes.
Penn Museum Library GN290.U6 S95 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sykes, Bryan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human population genetics--United States--Popular works.
- Human population genetics.
- Human genetics--Popular works.
- Human genetics.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Popular works.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 369 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Liveright Pub. Corp., [2012]
- Summary:
- Crisscrossing the continent, a renowned geneticist provides a groundbreaking examination of America through its DNA.
- Contents:
- DNA USA location map
- First movement: The point of Clovis
- The nature of the evidence
- The first Americans
- The mystery of Cluster X
- The Europeans
- The genetic genealogy revolution
- The world's biggest surname project
- The Jews
- The Africans
- "I am a Zulu"
- All my ancestors
- Second movement : The New Englanders
- Heading West
- The Great Spirit
- The persuaders
- The call of the canyon
- A question of blood
- Portraits of America
- Third movement: The private view.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0871404125
- 9780871404121
- OCLC:
- 755705002
- Publisher Number:
- 99948847906
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