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• - Provides information about the laboratory's work in population genetics. Includes CIL tools, staff details, and related links.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Neil Bradman and Mark Thomas look at the Y chromosome in the study of human evolution, migration and prehistory.
  
• - A venture backed by Oxford University to harness the power and precision of modern genetics in the service of genealogy.
  
• - From the BBC, genetic research suggests the Welsh are the "true" Britons while the English evolved from Anglo-Saxon invaders from modern-day Holland.
  
• - Genetic studies suggest our most common paternal and maternal ancestors walked the planet more than 80,000 years apart.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Capelli et al. found that different parts of the British Isles have sharply different paternal histories. An article from Current Biology.
  
• - Genetic studies have helped scientists identify the region of East Africa from where it is believed modern humans came.
  
• - Article and links regarding new genetic research which shows that everyone in Europe is descended from just seven women. From BBC news.
  
• - This article in Nature comments on the findings of Capelli et al. in their Y-chromosome census of the British Isles.
  
• - Professor Steve Harding of Nottingham University heads a team looking for evidence for Viking descendants in this part of Britain.
  
• - Links to a series of papers available as extracts and for full text download, from the University of Southern California.
  
• - Located in the Department of Genetics at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Includes personnel profiles, projects, and publications available in pdf format.
  
• - A commercial laboratory specializing in Y-chromosome testing for genealogists. US office in Rochester, New York, and UK office in Weymouth, Dorset.
  
• - 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.
  
• - 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.