Haplogroup V (mtDNA) Haplogroup V is a human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup. The clade is believed to have originated over 14,000 years ago in the Near East. Origin Haplogroup V derives from the HV0a subclade of haplogroup HV. In 1998 it was argued that V sp ...

The Seven Daughters of Eve ''The Seven Daughters of Eve'' is a 2001 semi-fictional book by Bryan Sykes that presents the science of human origin in Africa and their dispersion to a general audience. Sykes explains the principles of genetics and human evolution, the part ...

Bryan Sykes Bryan Clifford Sykes (9 September 1947 – 10 December 2020) was a British geneticist and science writer who was a Fellow of Wolfson College and Emeritus Professor of human genetics at the University of Oxford.DNA studies, she lived in the region of the

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about 15,000 BC. Even today, Haplogroup V is found with particularly high concentrations in the people of

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(15%) of northern

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but specially in the Sami people of northern

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: Swedish Sami (68%), Finnish Sami (37%) and Norwegian Sami (33%).

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Bryan Sykes, ''The Seven Daughters of Eve'' - - published in 2001.

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