Websites in Population

1. "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.
   http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/12/1212_021213_journeyofman.html
   
   
2. 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.
   http://www.current-biology.com/content/article/abstract?uid=PIIS0960982203003737
   
   
3. 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.
   http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2909803.stm
   
   
4. 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.
   http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/999030.stm
   
   
5. 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.
   http://popgen.biol.ucl.ac.uk/
   
   
6. 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.
   http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/wales/2076470.stm
   
   
7. 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.
   http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/719376.stm
   
   
8. 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.
   http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~sczsteve/survey.htm
   
   
9. 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.
   http://hpgl.stanford.edu/
   
   
10. Oxford Ancestors
    A venture backed by Oxford University to harness the power and precision of modern genetics in the service of genealogy.
    http://www.oxfordancestors.com/
    
    
11. Science Spectra: Why Y?
    Neil Bradman and Mark Thomas look at the Y chromosome in the study of human evolution, migration and prehistory.
    http://www.ucl.ac.uk/tcga/ScienceSpectra-pages/SciSpect-14-98.html
    
    
12. 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.
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/programmes/bloodofthevikings/genetics_results_01.shtml
    
    
13. 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.
    http://www.nature.com/nsu/030616/030616-15.html
    
    

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