As luck would have it, once the DNA had been recovered, it was discovered that Iceman (as he was named) was he was a close relative of a distant ancestor of Marie Mosley, a random genetics lab patient whose information was on file.

The author surmises that the entire modern European population is descended from at least one of seven ancient women. Like Adam in Genesis, he took the liberty of naming them all: Ursula, Xenia, Velda, Tara, Katherine, and Jasmine.