The Family of Woman
There are many different
versions of the world “Family of Woman” chart.
Click here to see a simplified diagram that
shows the major clans, with Brian Sykes’s names besides the seven he discussed
in his book (plus “Iris,” coined by the I web site group).
The following chart is
from the article by Quintana-Murci et al.[1] Mitochondrial “Eve” is at the top of the
chart and Haplogroup V is shown as the last branch on the lower right part of
the chart:
A somewhat different
version of the lower part of this chart was published by the Macauley group.
Haplogroup V is diagrammed in the lower left part of the chart.
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/AJHG/journal/issues/v68n6/002593/fg2.h.gif
World Distribution of
Haplogroups
Doug McDonald has put
together a very nice world map showing the frequency of occurrence of the world
mtDNA haplogroups:
http://scs.uiuc.edu/~mcdonald/worldmtdnamap.pdf
To see a slide show the
illustrates the geographic origin and migrations of the different haplogroups,
go to the following site:
http://www.mcdonald.cam.ac.uk/genetics/mtDNAworld/one.html
On this page, click the
top button (of the four on the left side), the one with the “>” symbol, to
step through the slides.