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Here is a link to an interesting video posted on YouTube about the interactions of genes and culture.  The video was originally produced for the University of California Television.  Thanks to member Doyle Phillips for this tip!

Most human populations are a product of mixture of genetically distinct groups that intermixed within the last 4,000 years.  Click here to read more in the UK's Daily Mail.

The genomes of King Richard III and one of his family’s direct living descendants are to be sequenced in a project funded by the Wellcome Trust, the Leverhulme Trust and Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys.  Read about it here in Heritage Daily or here in...

While the FamilySearch dinner was a huge affair, Ancestry.com kept their blogger meeting very intimate.  Click here to read a summary of it in The Ancestry Insider.

Biology stands on the brink of a shift in the understanding of inheritance. The discovery of epigenetics hidden influences upon the genes could affect every aspect of our lives.  Click here to watch a five-part series on YouTube.