{"product_id":"9780871404763","title":"DNA USA: A Genetic Portrait of America","description":"\u003cp\u003eCrisscrossing the continent, a renowned geneticist provides a groundbreaking examination of America through its DNA.\u003c\/p\u003e The best-selling author of \u003cem\u003eThe Seven Daughters of Eve\u003c\/em\u003e now turns his sights on the United States, one of the most genetically variegated countries in the world. From the blue-blooded pockets of old-WASP New England to the vast tribal lands of the Navajo, Bryan Sykes takes us on a historical genetic tour, interviewing genealogists, geneticists, anthropologists, and everyday Americans with compelling ancestral stories. His findings suggest:\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e      • Of Americans whose ancestors came as slaves, virtually all have some European DNA.\u003cbr\u003e      • Racial intermixing appears least common among descendants of early New England colonists.\u003cbr\u003e      • There is clear evidence of Jewish genes among descendants of southwestern Spanish Catholics.\u003cbr\u003e      • Among white Americans, evidence of African DNA is most common in the South.\u003cbr\u003e      • European genes appeared among Native Americans as early as ten thousand years ago.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e An unprecedented look into America's genetic mosaic and how we perceive race, \u003cem\u003eDNA USA\u003c\/em\u003e challenges the very notion of what we think it means to be American.","brand":"Liveright Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47072399261936,"sku":"9780871404763","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780871404763_p0.jpg?v=1763828871","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780871404763","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}