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A Genetic and Cultural Odyssey: The Life and Work of L. Luca Cavalli-Sforza Hardcover – May 25, 2005

by Linda Stone (Author), Paul Lurquin (Author)

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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.

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This fascinating little book demonstrates that Cavalli-Sforza has blazed a path well worth reading. (Oren Solomon American Scientist)

As a renaissance scientist in the purist form... Cavalli-Sforza is a giant upon whom many scientists have stood... Highly recommended. (Choice)

A Genetic and Cultural Odyssey is a wonderful journey through the life to date of a giant who is nearly glued to science. (Nyamkhishig Sambuughin, Ph.D. New England Journal of Medicine)

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Linda Stone is professor of anthropology at Washington State University. She is the author of Gender and Culture in America(with Nancy P. McKee); Kinship and Gender: An Introduction; and Illness Beliefs and Feeding the Dead in Hindu Nepal. She lives in Pullman, Washington. Paul Lurquin is professor of genetics at Washington State University. He is the author of The Green Phoenix: A History of Genetically Modified Plants; High Tech Harvest: Understanding Genetically Modified Food Plants; and The Origins of Life and the Universe; and Genes and DNA (with Charlotte Omoto). He lives in Pullman, Washington.

Hardcover: 248 pages
Publisher: Columbia University Press (May 25, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0231133960
ISBN-13: 978-0231133968
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.7 x 9 inches
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Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,659,488 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1126 in Books > Biographies & Memoirs > Professionals & Academics > Social Scientists & Psychologists
- #2858 in Books > Medical Books > Basic Sciences > Genetics
- #4440 in Books > Biographies & Memoirs > Professionals & Academics > Scientists

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Martin W. Denker

Much, Much, more important subject than most people realize.

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Cultural transmission of phenotypic behavior is extremely important. In my opinion it is one of the MAJOR factors in human disease, medical treatment of disease, human suffering and relief of that suffering. It has proven so difficult to study this topic that most of academic medicine simply avoids tackling it. Studying the subject is made even more complicated by the fact that genetic factors are an issue at the same time that cultural factors are in operation ("co-evolution). Nevertheless, in my specialty (Psychiatry) one of the biggest changes that a patient can accomplish is to alter the "multigenerational transmission of Psychopathology" (my kids won't suffer from the same harmful treatments that I did when I was a kid).If you have suspected how important this issue might be, and want to introduce yourself to the scientific study of the subject, this book is the place to start. Once you have some perspective on Cavalli-Sforza's research, you can better tackle the original research he has published in his books, starting around 1971.

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John Matlock

Crosses the Boundry of Science and the Humanities

July 22, 2005

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In recent years it has becomm possible to use DNA to trace human development. For instance the people of iceland believed themselves to be of Viking descent. DNA testing has shown that yes, the men of Iceland are of Viking descent. But the women came from England and Scotland. Apparently the Vikings stopped off to capture a few women on their way west.

This little tidbit of knowledge is a mixture of multiple sciences and fields of study. The beliefs of the Icelanders has to come from a humanities perspective. The DNA evidence has to come from the hard science in the laboratory. (The supposition at the end is my own.)

Dr. Cavalli-Sforza, as the title of this book says, has spent a lifetime of study spanning across many fields of study in the hard sciences and in many different areas of the humanities. This is a book that spans the globe from his offices in California and Italy to field studies in Africa and elsewhere.

Written by an anthropologist and a geneticist, this book is also a good combination of crossing the fields of science and humanity.

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