Acknowledgements
Map: The Seven Gardens of Eden
Prologue
1 Iceman’s Relative Found in Dorset
2 So, What is DNA and What Does It Do?
3 From Blood Groups to Genes
4 The Special Messenger
5 The Tsar and I
6 The Puzzle of the Pacific
7 The Greatest Voyagers
8 The First Europeans
9 The Last of the Neanderthals
10 Hunters and Farmers
11 We Are Not Amused
12 Cheddar Man Speaks
13 Adam Joins the Party
14 The Seven Daughters
15 Ursula
16 Xenia
17 Helena
18 Velda
19 Tara
20 Katrine
21 Jasmine
22 The World
23 A Sense of Self
