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.

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.

Genetic studies suggest our most common paternal and maternal ancestors walked the planet more than 80,000 years apart.

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.

A commercial laboratory specializing in Y-chromosome testing for genealogists. US office in Rochester, New York, and UK office in Weymouth, Dorset.

From the BBC, genetic research suggests the Welsh are the "true" Britons while the English evolved from Anglo-Saxon invaders from modern-day Holland.

Article and links regarding new genetic research which shows that everyone in Europe is descended from just seven women. From BBC news.

Professor Steve Harding of Nottingham University heads a team looking for evidence for Viking descendants in this part of Britain.

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.

Links to a series of papers available as extracts and for full text download, from the University of Southern California.

A venture backed by Oxford University to harness the power and precision of modern genetics in the service of genealogy.

Neil Bradman and Mark Thomas look at the Y chromosome in the study of human evolution, migration and prehistory.

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.

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.

This article in Nature comments on the findings of Capelli et al. in their Y-chromosome census of the British Isles.