Melusine
12-11-10, 03:57
There is a good book called The Seven Daughters of Eve, by Bryan Sykes, Professor of Human Genetics, University of Oxford about MTDNA etc.
According to Bryan Sykes in this book he named 7 "clan mothers" of all modern Europeans. (book published in 2001, and much water has gone under the materna bridge since then, and other researchers have now includedI, M., W, U4, U5, and W N. And of course now we have subclades.
In his book he names the 7 seven clan mother thus:
.Ursula: corresponds to Haplogroup U (specificall U5, and excludes its subgroup K.) "She lived about 20,000 years ago near the border of France and Spain
.Xenia, Corresponds to Haplogroup X, Lived about 25,000 years ago (a small number of her descendants went to Europe and the America's
. Helena: Corresponds to Haplogroup H, Her descendants are the most widespread, and lived about 20,000 years ago near the border of Spain and France
.Velda, Corresponds to Haplogroup V lived approx 15,00 years ago in the Iberian Peninsula. The Saami in Finland are descendants of a migration during the last ice age
.Tara: corresponds to Haplogroup T, lived about 17,000 years ago near the Mediterranean during the ice age
.Katrine: corresponds to Haplogroup K, lived about 15,000 years ago on the southern slopes of the Italian Alps.
.Jasmine: corresponds to Haplogroup J, lived in the Fertile Crescent during the European ice age. (This is not to be confused with y-dna J)
Bryan Sykes also traces back human migrations, regarding the "out of Africa theory". If interested in him, look him up on Google: Bryan Sykes MTDNA geneticist.
So, one can keep in "mind", that then, just as today, one women is not the "clan mother" of all persons born in a particular region in Europe etc. There are many of us "mothers" and daughters of Mitochondrial Eve, (still) around :smile:.
Melusine
According to Bryan Sykes in this book he named 7 "clan mothers" of all modern Europeans. (book published in 2001, and much water has gone under the materna bridge since then, and other researchers have now includedI, M., W, U4, U5, and W N. And of course now we have subclades.
In his book he names the 7 seven clan mother thus:
.Ursula: corresponds to Haplogroup U (specificall U5, and excludes its subgroup K.) "She lived about 20,000 years ago near the border of France and Spain
.Xenia, Corresponds to Haplogroup X, Lived about 25,000 years ago (a small number of her descendants went to Europe and the America's
. Helena: Corresponds to Haplogroup H, Her descendants are the most widespread, and lived about 20,000 years ago near the border of Spain and France
.Velda, Corresponds to Haplogroup V lived approx 15,00 years ago in the Iberian Peninsula. The Saami in Finland are descendants of a migration during the last ice age
.Tara: corresponds to Haplogroup T, lived about 17,000 years ago near the Mediterranean during the ice age
.Katrine: corresponds to Haplogroup K, lived about 15,000 years ago on the southern slopes of the Italian Alps.
.Jasmine: corresponds to Haplogroup J, lived in the Fertile Crescent during the European ice age. (This is not to be confused with y-dna J)
Bryan Sykes also traces back human migrations, regarding the "out of Africa theory". If interested in him, look him up on Google: Bryan Sykes MTDNA geneticist.
So, one can keep in "mind", that then, just as today, one women is not the "clan mother" of all persons born in a particular region in Europe etc. There are many of us "mothers" and daughters of Mitochondrial Eve, (still) around :smile:.
Melusine