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Bryan Sykes writes on the science of DNA. That may not seem to be very readable, but he breaks it down into layperson bite sizes, and makes it interesting. The first book of his I read was The Seven Daughters of Eve, which traces the ancestry of most Europeans to seven women through mitochondrial DNA, which is passed unchanged from mother to child. The first attempts to extract ancient DNA from bones lead to using mitochondrial DNA because it was the most plentiful, and had the sho… Continue