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.
Professor Steve Harding of Nottingham University heads a team looking for evidence for Viking descendants in this part of Britain.
Article and links regarding new genetic research which shows that everyone in Europe is descended from just seven women.
Genetic studies have helped scientists identify the region of East Africa from where it is believed modern humans came.
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.
Located in the Department of Genetics at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Includes personnel profiles, projects, and publications available in pdf format.
Capelli et al. found that different parts of the British Isles have sharply different paternal histories. An article from Current Biology.
This article in Nature comments on the findings of Capelli et al. in their Y-chromosome census of the British Isles.
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.
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