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Human Population Genetics Laboratory - http://hpgl.stanford.edu/
Located in the Department of Genetics at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Includes personnel profiles, projects, and publications available in pdf format. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Trace Your Ancestry with DNA - http://www.dnaancestryproject.com
Tracing paternal and maternal ancestral roots using DNA. |
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PhyloTree.org - http://www.phylotree.org
Provides a phylogenetic tree of global human mitochondrial DNA variation. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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A Y Chromosome Census of the British Isles - http://www.current-biology.com/content/article/abstract?uid=PIIS0960982203003737
Capelli et al. found that different parts of the British Isles have sharply different paternal histories. An article from Current Biology. |
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National Geographic: The Genographic Project - https://www3.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/
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. |
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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. |
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Molecular Evolution and Population Genetics - http://www-hto.usc.edu/papers/abstracts/lists/molecularEvolution.html
Links to a series of papers available as extracts and for full text download, from the University of Southern California. |
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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. |