EUROPE'S SEVEN FEMALE FOUNDERS
"Everyone in Europe is descended from just seven women.
Arriving at different times during the last 45,000 years, they survived wolves, bears and ice ages to form different clans that eventually became today's population.
These are the claims of Bryan Sykes, professor of human genetics at Oxford University.
Calling them "The Seven Daughters of Eve", Professor Sykes has individually named them Ursula, Xenia, Tara, Helena, Katrine, Valda and Jasmine.
Professor Sykes arrived at his conclusion by studying mitochondrial DNA, which is passed down from mothers to children.
From 6000 random samples, and allowing for naturally occurring mutations, he established seven different clusters of DNA."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/719376.stm
Arriving at different times during the last 45,000 years, they survived wolves, bears and ice ages to form different clans that eventually became today's population.
These are the claims of Bryan Sykes, professor of human genetics at Oxford University.
Calling them "The Seven Daughters of Eve", Professor Sykes has individually named them Ursula, Xenia, Tara, Helena, Katrine, Valda and Jasmine.
Professor Sykes arrived at his conclusion by studying mitochondrial DNA, which is passed down from mothers to children.
From 6000 random samples, and allowing for naturally occurring mutations, he established seven different clusters of DNA."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/719376.stm
Dr Richard Knight
Co-ordinator: National Information Society Learnerships - Ecological Informatics
Department of Biodiversity and Conservation Biology
University of the Western Cape
Private Bag X17
Bellville 7535
Co-ordinator: National Information Society Learnerships - Ecological Informatics
Department of Biodiversity and Conservation Biology
University of the Western Cape
Private Bag X17
Bellville 7535
Phone 27 + 21 + 959 3940
Fax 27 + 21 + 959 1237
Fax 27 + 21 + 959 1237
Email Rknight@uwc.ac.za
posted by Rich Knight at
3/12/2006 08:53:00 PM
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Anonymous, at Tuesday, March 14, 2006 9:38:00 AM
Were this daughters the 1st Homo sapiens (women) in Europe? and if they were, why so late...45000 ybp and some of them arrived at different times indicating much much later then 45000. This daughters then must have come from Africa or what...Did all Homo sapiens evolved in Africa and from H. erectus.
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Anonymous, at Tuesday, March 14, 2006 11:57:00 AM
Tested the link - found it to be working. Sites can be down so re-visiting helps.
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Anonymous, at Saturday, March 18, 2006 8:10:00 PM
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