Genes, Peoples, and Languages (Magill’s Literary Annual 2001)
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- Author: Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Essays, language, and science
- Genres: Nonfiction, Essays, Science and technology
- Subjects: Linguistics or linguists, Genetics, Evolution
Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Professor Emeritus of Genetics at Stanford, has published prolifically in human genetics, evolution, and human population displacement. Among his works are The History and Geography of Human Genes (1994) and The Great Human Diaspora (with Francesco Cavalli-Sforza, 1995). This volume unites six lectures delivered at the Collège de France in 1981 and 1989 and subsequently published in France, then Italy. The author updated this English text, which Mark Seielstad produced from the French and Italian versions. Spanish and German editions already...
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