A genetic and cultural odyssey : the life and work of L. Luca Cavalli-Sforza / Linda Stone and Paul F. Lurquin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stone, Linda, 1947-

Contributor:

Lurquin, Paul F.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cavalli-Sforza, L. L. (Luigi Luca), 1922-.

Cavalli-Sforza, L. L.

Geneticists--California--Biography.

Geneticists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (243 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Drawing links between genetic and cultural development, Cavalli-Sforza developed groundbreaking techniques to trace the evolution of Homo sapiens and the origins of human differentiation, in addition to his earlier work in bacterial genetics. He is also the founder of the Human Genome Diversity Project and continues to work as the principal investigator at Stanford University's Human Population Genetics Laboratory. Based on extensive research and interviews with Cavalli-Sforza and his colleagues, this biography examines the scientist's life and his immense and occasionally controversial contributions to genetics, anthropology, and linguistics.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Preface

Chapter 1. Science and Society, Genes and Culture

Chapter 2. From Medicine to Bacterial Genetics (1943-1960)

Chapter 3. The Shift to Human Populations (1952-1970)

Chapter 4. Excursions into Human Culture (1970-)

Chapter 5. Genes, Languages, and Human Prehistory (1970-)

Chapter 6. On to DNA Polymorphisms and the Y Chromosome (1984-)

Chapter 7. The Human Genome Diversity Project (1991- )

Chapter 8. The Legacy

Glossary

References

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-216) and index.

ISBN:

9786612796289

9781282796287

1282796283

9780231508582

0231508581

OCLC:

826476437