Genes, Peoples, and Languages
by Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
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Author: Luigi Luca Cavalli-SforzaEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2001-04-03
ISBN: 0520228731
Number of pages: 239
Publisher: University of California Press
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Summary: 5 Stars
This is the type of book you don't want to stop reading. After reading, you jump to the site again to see what else the author made in order to buy it. The number of (explained) genetic information the author provides is astonishing. Did you know, for instance, that the American autoctone populations (at least from the European point of view) are 98% blood types O? The author, also, goes the extra mile explaining that this happened because of only one of two possibilities. Want to know? Just read the book and you find why. I am sure you will not be disappointed by the writting style of the Italian author who explains difficult things (genetic vocabulary) in a very easy and unpretentious manner. His adamant position against racism is also pretty interesting, given the scientific data presented, which contradicts all the so-called Aryan theories of the nazi era. Good reading..
Summary of Genes, Peoples, and Languages
Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza was among the first to ask whether the genes of modern populations contain a historical record of the human species. Cavalli-Sforza and others have answered this question--anticipated by Darwin--with a decisive yes. Genes, Peoples, and Languages comprises five lectures that serve as a summation of the author's work over several decades, the goal of which has been nothing less than tracking the past hundred thousand years of human evolution.Cavalli-Sforza raises questions that have serious political, social, and scientific import: When and where did we evolve? How have human societies spread across the continents? How have cultural innovations affected the growth and spread of populations? What is the connection between genes and languages? Always provocative and often astonishing, Cavalli-Sforza explains why there is no genetic basis for racial classification.
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