Science

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Genetics and Human Migration Patterns

Using DNA testing to trace deep ancestral origins and population migrational patterns.

Tracing paternal and maternal ancestral roots using DNA.

Provides a phylogenetic tree of global human mitochondrial DNA variation.