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"Journey" Redraws Humans' Family Tree - From National Geographic, geneticist Spencer Wells claims that all humans alive today are descended from a single man who lived in Africa around 60,000 years ago.
A Y Chromosome Census of the British Isles - Capelli et al. found that different parts of the British Isles have sharply different paternal histories. An article from Current Biology.
BBC: Tanzania, Ethiopia Origin for Humans - Genetic studies have helped scientists identify the region of East Africa from where it is believed modern humans came.
BBC: Genetic 'Adam Never Met Eve' - Genetic studies suggest our most common paternal and maternal ancestors walked the planet more than 80,000 years apart.
Centre for Population Genetics and Human Health - At University College London. Lecture notes on population genetics (in pdf format) with slides. Profiles of Professor David B. Goldstein and those in his group.
English and Welsh are Races Apart - From the BBC, genetic research suggests the Welsh are the "true" Britons while the English evolved from Anglo-Saxon invaders from modern-day Holland.
Europe's Seven Female Founders - Article and links regarding new genetic research which shows that everyone in Europe is descended from just seven women. From BBC news.
Genetic Survey of Wirral and West Lancashire - Professor Steve Harding of Nottingham University heads a team looking for evidence for Viking descendants in this part of Britain.
Human Population Genetics Laboratory - Located in the Department of Genetics at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Includes personnel profiles, projects, and publications available in pdf format.
Oxford Ancestors - A venture backed by Oxford University to harness the power and precision of modern genetics in the service of genealogy.
Science Spectra: Why Y? - Neil Bradman and Mark Thomas look at the Y chromosome in the study of human evolution, migration and prehistory.
The Blood of the Vikings - For the BBC series 'Blood of the Vikings', University College London undertook a survey to uncover Viking genes in the British Isles. The BBC explain the techniques and show the results on a map.
Y Chromosomes Rewrite British History - This article in Nature comments on the findings of Capelli et al. in their Y-chromosome census of the British Isles.
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