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# Adam's Curse: A Future without Men

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### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    'A doubtful male future'
  

*by P***A on Reviewed in the United States on June 30, 2015*

This book has something to intrigue geneticists, genealogists, science fiction fans, feminists and others looking to explore the edges of our human reality particularly as related to differences between the sexes.  The author is a geneticist with a flare for tracing probabilities of change he has found and that face the male chromosomal and genetic future.It got my attention because of the title which sounded clearly like a pending threat facing males including me.  Most of the book addresses the title subject in detail in many ways in and out of the laboratory. Initially, in the lab at Oxford, he finds characteristics of his male chromosome which cause him to ask questions about details of the family name – Sykes – in relationship to what he sees in the lab regarding his genetic profile.  Who were his forebears in terms of his genetic and geneaological history?  Thus Chapter 1.From that point he travels to towns in Great Britain seeking to verify his family history as it appeared in his own genetic profile and another Sykes he had met also a scientist.  In this part of the book he visits with other Sykes, looks through secondary school records, etc.  These chapters constitute a practicum on tracing ones own genealogy.  In these explorations he encounters others curious about the history of their families as revealed in laboratory genetic studies.  As a result he expands his horizons to look at patterns for other families such as the MacDonald’s of Scotland.  Such beginnings lead him to continue a journey researching Scottish clans and their being influenced by Viking raids.  This part of the book provides the reader with even more ideas of paths to follow in creating family histories but also how the historical elements are related to genetic histories.  That, of course, means he not only looked at hard records but collects swabs from mouths of various individuals to articulate relationships between historical, genetic, genealogical, and physiological features.  These chapters are very informative about ingredients of family histories.Following this he tries to answer questions about who were first settlers of Iceland.  From these diversions he returns to more questions of how chromosomal differences between males and females influence human generations they produce and how this history reflects the chromosomal patterns of diseases and personal characteristics.  Along the way he begins to ask about a longer term future of the human race because of genetic permutations and changes generation to generation.  It is in these chapters he raises additional questions into which he ventures in increasing detail all leading to more questions raised related to the book’s title.  The first reflections are not very promising for the human male.By the time one reaches chapter 16 we begin to see the immense impact of the male chromosome on history of the world.  That, in turn, provides insights into such things as Mongol raids under Genghis Khan throughout the far east and into eastern Europe.  Marks of the male Khan ‘Y’ chromosome are genetically everywhere evident in affected populations.  Thus, the reader will have seen this type of influence beginning with his family, moving on to much larger families such as the MacDonalds, and broadly covering the ubiquitous influence of Viking and Mongol raids.  The genetic mixing and the resultant record is useful in tracing history of these times down to individual families though he ventures in less detail than provided for the Sykes and Mac Donalds.The really interesting parts of the book, for me, are found in the last four chapters.  In these he verges on writing science fiction as he speculates, without wandering far afield of hard science, about the long term fate of males in human society.  Essentially he concludes male genes may be a chromosomal dead end for their future history.  The final chapter title hints at where he will go next – “Lifting the Curse”.  The speculations in this chapter are mind expanding but not conclusive.  There is a smidgen more offered for thought on the last page – The Afterword.This book is a logical complement to his others  including “Seven Daughters of Eve” and “Saxons, Vikings & Celts”.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    right now a lot of people are angry at brian sykes.
  

*by L***N on Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2014*

but not about this book, because these people do not read much.  they  are bigfoot hunters who have given samples to him that he has probably tested but not yet let out the results.i know why he has not, because i came out the worse for wear when i did not know truths i had to offer got in the way of rich powerful interests that did not want my particular truths to cut into their profit margin.because i have always studied population genetics,  and also keep bees, which are the easiest population to learn from that includes sexual propagation patterns that are not yet in human populations, but according to sykes , may someday be,  i really enjoyed this book.sykes writes in a way that is scientific, but not so much of the figures and math that makes science sometimes confusing to those of us who barely passed algebra by cheating.  he is warm and excited about what his work has made possible, in uniting many people from unlikely places.if you watch time team on youtube you may have seen the episode when a lady believed that if they dug up a parking lot where the letter 'r' was written on one parking space, they would find the skeleton of richard III.  they dug it up and found a skeleton that had certain traits that history believed richard III had.but the last thing that proved it was richard III, was finding someone who was his descendant whose genes matched the dna that they found in the skeleton.  this book will tell you just why they could know for sure.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    All Sykes books are great
  

*by B***N on Reviewed in the United States on July 4, 2020*

This one breaks down the underlying battle between the sexes, sort of like a computer with many programs running  under the hood. As it turns out there’s limited free will as our programmed DNA is more in charge than we are. A little disappointing. I’ve ordered my Oxford mDNA study including the British Isles paternal input. Looking forward to the results. I also recommend his earlier book, Seven Daughters of Eve.

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