Bryen Sykes is Professor of Human Genetics at Oxford University’s Institute of Molecular Medicine, Dean of Wolfson College, and Founder of Oxford Ancestor, a company that performs mitochondrial DNA testing for individuals who want to know their ancestry. In his book The Seven Daughters of Eve, he tells us, “I have discovered to my astonishment that we are all maternally related to a small group of women who lived tens of thousands of years ago.”
Most of the DNA that we have is inherited from our parents and it is in the chromosomes of the nucleus but outside the nucleus there are a kind of granules called mitochondria and each one of them has its own DNA. They are excellent for reconstructing the past because We inherit mitochondrial DNA exclusively from our mother and she from hers and so on. There is a unique maternal line of our ancestors. Sykes affirms that “if you analyze many Europeans it turns out that they have African DNA, it is a total mixture. There was a time when we believed that we could define ethnic groups based on their genetic basis, but this is not the case.”
We have in common the same piece of DNA that has been passed down from our ancient maternal ancestors. According to Sykes “we use it constantly. Cells in all tissues are reading the message it contains and following its instructions millions of times per second. Every atom of oxygen that we breathe into our bodies has to be processed according to the formula that we have inherited from our ancestors. This is a very fundamental connection in and of itself.”
The route by which this gene reached us has followed the same path as mother-daughter connections. He is a living witness to the cycle of pain, nurturing and constant love that begins every time a child is born.
This connection between clan members has not been so obvious until now because family history and genealogy are dominated by male inheritance. But the ultimate cause is the patriarchal attitude of Western civilization, the same that we found in the first theories of heredity. “Wealth and social position were the only things considered worth inheriting, and they were passed down the male line.” History has been written based on the surname inherited from the father, however the essence of the feminine is deeply rooted in mitochondrial DNA and a giant family tree could be made following the trail of women.
For Bioneuroemoción®, the confirmation that we are united by the same remote lineage corroborates, from a scientific point of view, that we come from the same source and therefore, we are all united. The idea of a giant family tree perfectly illustrates the notion of unity. When we feel part of a whole we do not see the opposite poles but the complementary ones.
On the other hand, we know that the role of the mother is one of the most important in nature. In all animals, from reptiles to mammals, mothers know what to do and how to behave. Human mothers are the only ones who have doubts. From Bioneuroemoción® we know that a conscious mother returns to that state of knowing what she has to do naturally, connecting with her essence. A conscious mother feels the emotional bond with the baby, she knows she is in a permanent connection with the creature and understands that the dialogue with the child goes beyond words. Emotions are the language that the field understands. A conscious mother connects with her baby and at the same time is connected with all the mothers in her tree.
“Each of us carries a message from his ancestors in every cell of his body.”
Bryan Sykes.
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