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Jared Diamond says, "It would be a slight exaggeration to say that LL Cavalli-Sforza studies everything about everybody, because actually he is "only" interested in what genes, languages, archaeology, and culture can teach us about the history and migrations of everybody for the last several hundred thousand years". Cavalli-Sforza has been the leading architect of a revolution (even a paradigm shift) in human genetics since the 1960s. Because of his work, geneticists no longer think that the human species is divided into colour-coded races. Cavalli-Sforza's studies of the transmission of family names in Italy, of the relationship between human genes and languages, of migration and marriage, are the benchmarks of our biological self-understanding. Genes, Peoples, and Languages is less personal than Cavalli-Sforza's preceding book, The Great Human Diasporas: The History of Diversity and Evolution. And it is far more compact that the magisterial The History and Geography of Human Genes. Instead, it is an excellent overview of Cavalli-Sforza's many-faceted approach to human history and our present condition. It is that rarest of achievements, holistic without any trace of mushy-mindedness. --Mary Ellen Curtin Read More

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    Paperback. Pub Date: 2001 09 Pages: 240 Publisher: Penguin historians Relying on written RECORDS can tell us nothing about the 99.9 per cent of the Human evolution which preceded the invention of writing It is the study of Genetic Variation backed up by language and archaeology. which provides concrete evidence about the spread of farming. the movements of peoples across the globe. the precise links between races - and the sheer unscientific absurdity of racism. Genes. Peoples and Languages ??offers an astonishing investigation into the past 100.000 years of human history and a rare. firsthand account of some of the most significant and gripping scientific work of recent years. Cavalli-Sforza is one of the great founding fathers of archaeogenetics. and in this book he maps out some of its grand themes.Contents : Genes and history; a walk in the woods; of Adam and Eve; techno...

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    Historians relying on written records can tell us nothing about the 99.9 per cent of human evolution which preceded the invention of writing. It is the study of genetic variation, backed up by language and archaeology, which provides concrete evidence about the spread of farming, the movements of peoples across the globe, the precise links between races - and the sheer unscientific absurdity of racism. Genes, Peoples and Languages offers an astonishing investigation into the past 100,000 years of human history and a rare, firsthand account of some of the most significant and gripping scientific work of recent years. Cavalli-Sforza is one of the great founding fathers of archaeogenetics, and in this book he maps out some of its grand themes.

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    It is the study of genetic variation backed up by language and archaeology which provides evidence about the spread of farming the movements of peoples across the globe the precise links between races - and the sheer unscientific absurdity of racism. This work offers an investigation into the past 100 000 years of human history.

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    Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Mark Seielstad (Trans)

  • 0140296026
  • 9780140296020
  • Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
  • 27 September 2001
  • Penguin
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 240
  • New Ed
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