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The Great Human Diasporas: The History Of Diversity and Evolution Paperback – November 6, 1996

by Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza (Author), Francesco Cavalli-Sforza (Author), Sarah Thorne (Translator)

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Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza draws upon his lifelong work in archaeology, anthropology, genetics, molecular biology, and linguistics, to address the basic questions of human origins and diversity. Coauthored by his son, Francesco, the book answers age-old questions such as: Was there a mitochondrial Eve? Did the first humans originate in Africa or in several spots on the planet at about the same time? How did humans get onto North America, the tip of South America, and Australia?

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The title The Great Human Diasporas implies that this book is a history of human migration, but it is much more. It is a readable, accessible summary of the lifework of Luca Cavalli-Sforza, who has done more than anyone else to reveal the genetic makeup of human populations. Originally written in Italian with Cavalli-Sforza's filmmaker son Francesco, it maintains some qualities of an interview: The Great Human Diasporas is full of anecdotes about the Pygmies with whom Cavalli-Sforza works, the text is frequently personal yet not self-serving, and it clearly shows how he helped tie together population genetics, linguistics, and anthropology to offer a new, non-racist view of human diversity.

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Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforzais Emeritus Professor of Genetics at Stanford University Medical School. He is the author of a number of seminal scientific books.

Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Perseus Books; First English Edition edition (November 6, 1996)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0201442310
ISBN-13: 978-0201442311
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.8 x 9 inches
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Wonderful foundation to further exploration of the story of humanity as traceable via genetics and historical linguistics.

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8th–10th grade reading level, easy to understand, accessible and interesting material without being "dumbed down." Being a nerd and geek in general, but especially about languages and linguistics, I was somewhat underwhelmed overall yet pleased with the data presentations. What I mean is that I was conscious in advance that I would be reading about subjects with which I already had a more-than-passing familiarity. However I wanted to start with earlier works before plunging into successively more recent and demanding material, including later books by the duo Cavalli-Sforza. What I appreciate most about this book is the numerous examples of applied research. Nothing in academia is more pleasant than reading how different academic fields interpret data differently and separately and then reassess said data with a more cross-discipline approach. This book is also already twenty-years old and primarily about scientific subjects advancing rapidly; and therefore some of the data presented has become more "obvious" to us thanks to hindsight. I would encourage any prospective readers to remember that the genetics and historical linguistics covered were still new in the eye of the general public and have "evolved" (no pun intended) a great deal in the intervening years. Nowadays we are all relative experts in genetics compared to the common knowledge of the early 1990s Public.

Not having yet finished the last chapter nor moved on to later works by Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, I have questions regarding creoles' effects on said studies. The yet fledling field of study of creoles and pidgins remains highly contentious, so I'm not sure there is much to be said other than that there will likely be some major changes made to linguistic family trees. Consider, for example the potential ramifications of the as-yet barely hypothesized notion that Ancient Egyptian may have been a creole, and by extension some, if not all, semitic languages could never be traced through solitary inheritance but is itself a hybrid—the implications when comparing such data to genetic data is curious and compelling. I hope I live long enough to see some good research in genetics, archaeology, and linguistics that heed such possible hybridization. Did somebody say "neanderthals persist?" :)

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John A. Werneken

Facinating History of how human types & languages developed

May 6, 2000

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So easy to read: no science degree required. And so full of the actual scientific information, that I could also play armchair scientist, develop my own theories a few pages ahead of the authors' telling me theirs, and shout AHA! or groan "AW" as further reading showed if I had understood, or not.
The author has been studying for sixty years what we can learn now, from differences in human body types, body chemistry, and DNA, about the past travels of the human race as it came to populate the entire world. I am astonished at how far I could see into the distant past through their work and words.
Words are a second theme of the book, how languages in general seem also, like modern people, to have had one ancient source and then diversified as early humans expanded. He shows how frequently languages spread without the populations involved being in any way replaced, and explains how some changes, such as inventing farming, were so beneficial that not only the new tongues but also the new body types spread widely from small original sources.
There are apparently four great streams of body types: African; Australian; what is called Caucasian; and what is considered Asian, with the last two at different times providing peoples who still have descendants living all the way from Span to different populations of American Indians.
Languages seem to include mainly the results of the four body types plus the results of four separate independent inventions of farming, in Palestine, in north China, in south China, and in central America. Finally the gunpowder and trading revolution in Europe largely replaced American languages, and then the industrial revolution, like farming, vastly expanded our total numbers.
It is fascinating to understand how the body type and language migrations left traces here and there around the globe that on the surface imply that there is no order to our genetic or linguistic inheritances, but that can be explained on historical grounds as relics of great and ancient migrations.
Finally the authors turn to a third theme, which I suspect is their motivation not only for the book but also for the work that made it possible. The Cavalli-Sforzas explain in detail how very similar all peoples are in both genetic heritage and in measurable ability.
We are all brothers and sisters and perhaps may come to treat each other more as all our great religions and philosophies suggest that we should, if we can come to better understand and accept our common heritages.

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Fun to read book on human population genetics for the general public

September 23, 2014

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It is a good book for the general public about human population genetics and its evolution. Not a lot of technical details but fun to read.

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The Great Human Diaspora tracks the development of humans from their origin to their spread around the globe. It's the time span that is so striking. I've heard that Rome wasn't built in a day. This explanation of changes that took place over thousands and thousands of years is astounding!

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Dr Garry

Dry and not as interesting as I expected

March 7, 2013

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The author is an expert in his field. Perhaps I was hoping for a work just a little less dry and bit more populist, something more in the Richard Dawkins vein.

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Thank you.

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G. Tao

I learned and was encouraged

November 9, 2010

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I love this book. Not only did it explain scientific concepts in a way that a non-scientific layman like me can understand, but that it enriched human history with many other disciplines holistically, as it should. Most of all, I was touched by how humanistic the conclusions drawn by this book are. It's really encouraging to know that the progress of science can provide hope to humanity. Thanks so much, professor Sforza.

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My purchase to the The Great Human Diasporas: The History Of Diversity and Evolution cheap price, good quality, shipped on time in overall it was a good purchase!

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