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A Genetic and Cultural Odyssey: The Life and Work of L. Luca Cavalli-Sforza by [Stone, Linda, Lurquin, Paul]

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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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File Size: 2268 KB
Print Length: 244 pages
Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0231133960
Publisher: Columbia University Press (May 25, 2005)
Publication Date: May 25, 2005
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Language: English
ASIN: B008P1J9US
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Martin W. Denker

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

February 27, 2014

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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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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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