Open Directory - Science: Biology: Genetics: Eukaryotic: Animal: Mammal: Human: Population
See also: - Capelli et al. found that different parts of the British Isles have sharply different paternal histories. An article from Current Biology. - Article and links regarding new genetic research which shows that everyone in Europe is descended from just seven women. - 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. - Using DNA testing to trace deep ancestral origins and population migrational patterns. - Professor Steve Harding of Nottingham University heads a team looking for evidence for Viking descendants in this part of Britain. - Genetics and Human Migration Patterns - Provides information on haplogroups and offers a complete resource for DNA testing to help users determine their group. - Located in the Department of Genetics at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Includes personnel profiles, projects, and publications available in pdf format. - Provides information about the laboratory's work in population genetics. Includes CIL tools, staff details, and related links. - 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. - 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. - Provides a phylogenetic tree of global human mitochondrial DNA variation. - Basic information on population genetics. - 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. - 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. - Tracing paternal and maternal ancestral roots using DNA. - Maps of the world showing the distribution of Y chromosome and the MTDNA haplogroups throughout the world, with references, by J. Douglas McDonald. [PDF] - 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. - This article in Nature comments on the findings of Capelli et al. in their Y-chromosome census of the British Isles. - Genetic studies have helped scientists identify the region of East Africa from where it is believed modern humans came. (April 02, 2003) - 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. (December 13, 2002) - Genetic research suggests the Welsh are the "true" Britons while the English evolved from Anglo-Saxon invaders from modern-day Holland. (June 30, 2002) - Genetic studies suggest our most common paternal and maternal ancestors walked the planet more than 80,000 years apart. (October 30, 2000) - Neil Bradman and Mark Thomas look at the Y chromosome in the study of human evolution, migration and prehistory. (January 01, 1998)
