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• BBC: English and Welsh are Races Apart

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/wales/2076470.stm
  Genetic research suggests the Welsh are the "true" Britons while the English evolved from Anglo-Saxon invaders from modern-day Holland.

• BBC: Europe's Seven Female Founders

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/719376.stm
  Article and links regarding new genetic research which shows that everyone in Europe is descended from just seven women.

• BBC: Genetic 'Adam Never Met Eve'

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/999030.stm
  Genetic studies suggest our most common paternal and maternal ancestors walked the planet more than 80,000 years apart.

• BBC: Tanzania, Ethiopia Origin for Humans

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2909803.stm
  Genetic studies have helped scientists identify the region of East Africa from where it is believed modern humans came.

• Bradshaw Foundation: Journey of Mankind

  http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/journey/
  Stephen Oppenheimer provides a graphic display of the peopling of the world, tracking routes through a synthesis of chromosome evidence, archaeology, climatology and fossil study.

• Genebase

  http://www.genebase.com/
  Using DNA testing to trace deep ancestral origins and population migrational patterns.

• Genetic Survey of Wirral and West Lancashire

  http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~sczsteve/survey.htm
  Professor Steve Harding of Nottingham University heads a team looking for evidence for Viking descendants in this part of Britain.

• Genetics and Genealogy: Article #10: Genetics and Human Migration Patterns

  http://www.ramsdale.org/dna10.htm
  Genetics and Human Migration Patterns

• National Geographic: Documentary Redraws Humans' Family Tree

  http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/12/1212_021213_journeyofman.html
  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.

• People of the British Isles

  http://www.peopleofthebritishisles.org/
  A study by the University of Oxford. Blood samples from 3,500 people from rural populations throughout the British Isles will be used to look at the patterns of differences in people’s genetic make up around the UK.

• PhyloTree.org

  http://www.phylotree.org/
  Provides a phylogenetic tree of global human mitochondrial DNA variation.

• Science Spectra: Why Y?

  http://www.ucl.ac.uk/tcga/ScienceSpectra-pages/SciSpect-14-98.html
  Neil Bradman and Mark Thomas look at the Y chromosome in the study of human evolution, migration and prehistory.

• The Center for Genetic Anthropology, University College London

  http://www.ucl.ac.uk/tcga/
  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.

• The Human Genome Diversity Project

  http://www.stanford.edu/group/morrinst/hgdp.html
  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.

• Trace Your Ancestry with DNA

  http://www.dnaancestryproject.com/
  Tracing paternal and maternal ancestral roots using DNA.

• World Haplogroups

  http://www.scs.uiuc.edu/~mcdonald/WorldHaplogroupsMaps.pdf
  Maps of the world showing the distribution of Y chromosome and the MTDNA haplogroups throughout the world, with references, by J. Douglas McDonald.

• Y Chromosomes Point to Native American Adam

  http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/sci;283/5407/1439
  An article based on Y-DNA studies suggests that all Native Americans can be traced back to a male founder who lived 20,000 years ago.

• Y Chromosomes Rewrite British History

  http://www.nature.com/nsu/030616/030616-15.html
  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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