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National Geographic: Documentary Redraws Humans' Family Tree
Geneticist Spencer Wells claims that all humans alive today are descended from a single man who lived in Africa around 60,000 years ago, in the Journey of Man documentary.
news.nationalgeographic.com
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.
www.nottingham.ac.uk
BBC: Europe's Seven Female Founders
Article and links regarding new genetic research which shows that everyone in Europe is descended from just seven women.
news.bbc.co.uk
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.
news.bbc.co.uk
BBC: English and Welsh are Races Apart
Genetic research suggests the Welsh are the "true" Britons while the English evolved from Anglo-Saxon invaders from modern-day Holland.
news.bbc.co.uk
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.
news.bbc.co.uk
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.
hpgl.stanford.edu
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.
www.current-biology.com
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.
www.nature.com
Neil Bradman and Mark Thomas look at the Y chromosome in the study of human evolution, migration and prehistory.
www.ucl.ac.uk
The Human Genome Diversity Project
Stanford University describes this international project that seeks to understand the diversity and unity of the entire human species. Includes a summary of the purpose of the project and of the planning work done.
www.stanford.edu
Imperial Cancer Research Fund Population Genetics Group
Provides information about the laboratory's work in population genetics. Includes CIL tools, staff details, and related links.
popgen.well.ox.ac.uk
Maps of the world showing the distribution of Y chromosome and the MTDNA haplogroups throughout the world, with references, by J. Douglas McDonald. (PDF)
www.scs.uiuc.edu
The Center for Genetic Anthropology, University College London
Pursues research on the evolution and migrations of human populations in north Africa, east Africa, the Near East, Asia and Europe. Profile of staff, research themes and presentations.
www.ucl.ac.uk
National Geographic: The Genographic Project
A 5-year study by The National Geographic Society, IBM, geneticist Spencer Wells, and the Waitt Family Foundation to compile a genetic atlas. Project outline and methods, how to participate, news, genetics overview and an interactive atlas of the human journey.
www3.nationalgeographic.com