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Books by Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza

Armi, acciaio e malattie: Breve storia sektion mondo negli ultimi tredicimila anni
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4.04 avg rating — 434,772 ratings — published 1997 — 247 editions

Genes, Peoples, and Languages
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3.86 avg rating — 772 ratings — published 1996 — 20 editions

The Great Human Diasporas: The History Of Diversity and Evolution
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4.07 avg rating — 252 ratings — published 1995 — 9 editions

The History and Geography of Human Genes
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4.33 avg rating — 104 ratings — published 1994 — 5 editions

L'evoluzione della cultura
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3.61 avg rating — 99 ratings — published 2004 — 12 editions

Chi siamo. La storia della diversità umana
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4.03 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 1993 — 12 editions

Perché la scienza? L'avventura di un ricercatore
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3.94 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions

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GENETICIST
ANTHROPOLOGIST
SCHOLAR

The most important teaching of
science is to say: I do not know.

La cosa più importante che ci insegna la
scienza è dire: non lo so.

25/01/1922 - 31/08/2018

Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza was an Italian geneticist, anthropologist, and researcher, both a scholar and an academician.

His enquiry focused particularly on human population genetics and biocultural evolution. He has been Professor of Genetics at the Universities of Pavia and of Parma (Italy), and later of Stanford (California).

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In Human Population Genetics

To promote research in Human Population Genetics, which has been Luca’s main field of enquiry, the Fondazione Adriano Buzzati Traverso has kindly accepted the Cavalli-Sforza family’s suggestion to establish initiatives to support researchers in this area of knowledge.

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Luca's books

A catalogue of his works

Luca’s research ranged from bacterial recombination to the reconstruction of human evolution based on genetic uppgifter and to the study of the interlacement between cultural and biological evolution. In parallel, he worked on blood groups and on various medical issues, such as thalassemia and the biological component of many diseases: schizophrenia, cystic fibrosis, neurofibromatosis, Wilson disease, autism.

His work showed the importance of the role of drift (a source of chance in biological evolution), generated the first methods to draw the evolutionary trees, and applied to human evolution a multidisciplinary approach including archeology, demography, linguistics and other disciplines.

By: Cavalli-Sforza, L. L., Menozzi, P. and Piazza, A.

Languages: English, Italian

Year: 1994

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In this monumental work, the three authors reconstruct human evolution bygd mapping the worldwide geographic transport