Migrating Genes, Surnames and Y Chromosomes

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Natural Sciences, Science, Science Radio, Naked Scientists, Health & Fitness, Engineering, Medicine, Technology, Life Sciences

4.6 • 958 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2007

⏱️ 54 minutes

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This week we're exploring how populations come by their genes including the surprise finding of African DNA in a remote village in Yorkshire. Oxford University's Bruce Winney explains how studying rural populations in Britain is helping to uncover genes linked to different diseases, and Turi King, from Leicester University, discusses what your Y chromosome says about your surname. Plus we'll be hearing how Cambridge scientist Mike Majerus is putting evolution to the test with the help of the peppered moth, and in kitchen science, more jam tomorrow as Ben and Dave show you a trick with a... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	Stripping down science, the naked scientists.
0:06.0	Hello and welcome to the naked scientist with me, Dr. Kat and Dr Dave.
0:10.0	Hi there.
0:11.0	On today's show we are probing our DNA to find out what our genes can tell us about our
0:16.0	ancestry. We're going to be joined by Dr. Greece Winnie from Oxford University to tell us
0:20.7	about an ambitious project that he's doing to root through the genes of the British population
0:25.4	and that's the genes in our DNA not the genes that we're wearing and also we'll be speaking to
0:30.5	Terry King from Leicester University who's found a rather unusual historical
0:34.4	legacy in the genes of a group of Yorkshiremen.
0:37.6	And finally we've got Professor Mike Majoris here from the University of Cambridge, he's going
0:41.6	to be telling us more about how the environment
0:43.7	can influence the genes of insects. But that's not all. We also have Dave who is
0:47.8	wearing a kild today. We're going to make you stand up so you can see it on the
0:51.9	webcam later. If you've got the you can see it on the webcam.
0:54.8	If you've got the internet, go look on the webcam because Dave's got a kilter on.
0:56.6	What else have we got?
0:58.0	Well, coming up later, we'll discover how anti-dandruff shampoo could prove a clue forand-Thoupeucy and find it how scientists are having fun with fur.
1:07.0	Don't forget our kitchen science. This week you'll need three identical jam jars, one full of jam,
1:11.6	one full of water, and one full of nothing but air.
1:14.0	Stand by to find out what to do with them.
1:16.0	You could win a copy of Dr. Book, Chris's book, The Naked Science.
1:20.0	Fab! Fabulous but guaranteed to break the ice at parties, I sure. Anyway you can also win a copy of
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