Introduction

This website has been developed by the e-learning team of CWA New Media to support a video conference held between visiting Professor Bryan Sykes and the following Kaupapa Ara Whakawhiti Matauranga (KAWM), TaraNet, and CoroNet schools:

• Waverley High School (Taranaki)
• Coromandel Area School (Coromandel)
• Mana Tamariki (Palmerston North)

Who is Professor Bryan Sykes?
Professor Bryan Sykes is known around the world as the best-selling author of The Seven Daughters of Eve in which he traces the descent of Europeans to seven women who lived tens of thousands of years ago.

He is the Founder and Chairman of Oxford Ancestors and is a Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Oxford. It is for his work in the field of mitochondrial DNA and Y chromosome analysis that he is most famous. His new book, Adam's Curse, traces human descent through the paternal line looking at the Y chromosome and discovers that men are doomed to extinction.

Professor Bryan Sykes is The University of Auckland Sir Douglas Robb lecturer for 2003. This video conference was made possible by the Royal Society of New Zealand, with the support of the British Council New Zealand and the British High Commission.