Hardcover book with dust jacket 369 pages

"Crisscrossing the continent, a renowned geneticist provides a groundbreaking examination of America through its DNA.

Bryan Sykes, one of the world’s leading geneticists and best-selling author of The Seven Daughters of Eve, sets his sights on America, one of the most genetically variegated countries in the world. Sykes embarks on a road trip, DNA testing kit in tow, interviewing genealogists, anthropologists, and everyday Americans, tracing America’s history along a double helix that stretches from the last Ice Age to the present day. What emerges is an unprecedented look into America’s genetic mosaic that challenges the very notion of how we perceive race and what it means to be an American. 8 pages of color; 8 pages of black-and-white illustrations"

Very interesting book on a genetic (human) portrait of America. The author is famous for writing a number of interesting texts on this subject.

Of great interest here are the so called "chromosome portraits" showing the genetic make up of various people described in the book and how their various origins have given rise to organs or influenced them.

Great read!