In DNA USA, Bryan Sykes probes the melting pot of US genetics
I AM a Canadian, descended mainly from Highland Scots. Despite this bog-standard ancestry, I am irrationally fascinated by clues about where my “people” came from. I am not alone: Europeans and Africans are forever laughing at North American visitors in search of their “roots”. Well, laugh no longer. After reading this gracefully written book, I know that North American roots are well worth investigating.
Bryan Sykes is a geneticist at the University of Oxford and founder of , a company that traces ancestry. He has also…
