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Tag: Bryan Sykes

Pareidolia

On August 29, 2017 By Andrew G LockhartIn Book Review, Science, zoology5 Comments

[Pareidolia: - defined as the mind's ability to form images of things that aren't really there] The Nature of the Beast by Bryan Sykes A Review For a mainstream scientist, especially one as distinguished as the geneticist Bryan Sykes, to apply his knowledge and talents to a fringe study is unusual to say the least. …

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Why bother with sex?

On June 7, 2017 By Andrew G LockhartIn Book Review, Science2 Comments

Adam's Curse by Bryan Sykes 'The human Y-chromosome is a graveyard of rotting genes, whose corpses are still sufficiently similar to active counterparts on the X-chromosome to be recognisable by their DNA sequence, but whose festering remains contain the evidence of their own demise.' I seem to have a talent for picking up books with …

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Who Do You Think You Are?

On July 15, 2016 By Andrew G LockhartIn Book Review, British History, Science9 Comments

Blood of the Isles by Bryan Sykes A Bookheathen Review I became fascinated by genetics back in my student days. The science was still at an early stage then. We knew about DNA but were still a long way from using it to solve crimes, and an even longer way from sequencing the human genome. …

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It's all in the DNA!

On February 24, 2014 By Andrew G LockhartIn Book Review, Books, Life and the Universe, Science2 Comments

The Seven Daughters of Eve Bryan Sykes's book is one that bears reading a second and even a third time. It is the story of mitochondrial DNA. I first read it shortly after its publication in 2001. Science has moved on. There has been much new research and while scientists do not always agree on …

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