Background
Cavalli-Sforza was born on January 25, 1922 in Genoa, Liguria, Italy; the son of Pio and Attilia (Manacorda) Cavalli-Sforza.
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L. Luca Cavalli-Sforza and his collaborators Paolo Menozzi and Alberto Piazza have devoted fourteen years to one of the most compelling scientific projects of our time: the reconstruction of where human populations originated and the paths by which they spread throughout the world. The authors reconstruct the history of our evolution by focusing on genetic divergence among human groups. Using genetic information accumulated over the last fifty years, they examined over 110 different inherited traits, such as blood types, HLA factors, proteins, and DNA markers, in over eighteen hundred, primarily aboriginal, populations. By mapping the worldwide geographic distribution of the genes, the scientists are now able to chart migrations and, in exploring genetic distance, devise a clock by which to date evolutionary history: the longer two populations are separated, the greater their genetic difference should be. This volume highlights the authors' contributions to genetic geography, particularly their technique for making geographic maps of gene frequencies and their synthetic method of detecting ancient migrations, as for example the migration of Neolithic farmers from the Middle East toward Europe, West Asia, and North Africa. Beginning with an explanation of their major sources of data and concepts, the authors give an interdisciplinary account of human evolution at the world level. Chapters are then devoted to evolution on single continents and include analyses of genetic data and how these data relate to geographic, ecological, archaeological, anthropological, and linguistic information. Comprising a wide range of viewpoints, a vast store of new and recent information on genetics, and a generous supply of visual elements, including 522 geographic maps, this book is a unique source of facts and a catalyst for further debate and research.
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1994
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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? 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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1996
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Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza was among the first to ask whether the genes of modern populations contain a historical record of the human species. Cavalli-Sforza and others have answered this question—anticipated by Darwin—with a decisive yes. Genes, Peoples, and Languages comprises five lectures that serve as a summation of the author's work over several decades, the goal of which has been nothing less than tracking the past hundred thousand years of human evolution. Cavalli-Sforza raises questions that have serious political, social, and scientific import: When and where did we evolve? How have human societies spread across the continents? How have cultural innovations affected the growth and spread of populations? What is the connection between genes and languages? Always provocative and often astonishing, Cavalli-Sforza explains why there is no genetic basis for racial classification.
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2001
Cavalli-Sforza was born on January 25, 1922 in Genoa, Liguria, Italy; the son of Pio and Attilia (Manacorda) Cavalli-Sforza.
Cavalli-Sforza entered Ghislieri College in Pavia in 1939 and received his Doctor of Medicine from the University of Pavia in 1944.
Six years later, he received a Master of Arts degree from Cambridge University in England and an honorary degree of Doctor of Science in 1980 from Columbia University.
Cavalli-Sforza was given an honorary degree of Doctor of Science from Cambridge University in 1994.
Luigi began his career as an assistant researcher at Milan Institute of Sieroterapico, where he worked from 1945 to 1948 and director researcher at the same institute in 1950-1957. Then he moved to England and held a position of an assistant researcher of genetics department at Cambridge University in 1948-1950.
In 1951, Cavalli-Sforza was appointed a Professor of genetics at the University of Parma in Italy. Eleven years later he worked as a Professor of genetics and director of the Institute of genetics at the University of Pavia in Italy, where he worked until 1970. In 1968, he was a Vice president of International Congress of Genetics in Tokyo. Cavalli-Sforza came to the United States in 1970. In 1970, he took a position of a Professor of genetics at Stanford University in California and held it for 22 years. Since 1992, he has been a Professor emeritus there.
Cavalli-Sforza initiated a new field of research by combining the concrete findings of demography with a newly-available analysis of blood groups in an actual human population.
He also, in collaboration with Marcus Feldman and others, initiated the sub-discipline of cultural anthropology known alternatively as coevolution, gene-culture coevolution, cultural transmission theory or dual inheritance theory.
(Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza draws upon his lifelong work in...)
1996(Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza was among the first to ask whet...)
2001(L. Luca Cavalli-Sforza and his collaborators Paolo Menozz...)
1994Luigi is a member of American Association for the Advancement of Science, French Academy of Sciences, United States National Academy of Sciences, Royal London Society, Japanese Society of Human Genetics, European Academy of Sciences Lincei and American Society of Human Genetics (president, 1989).
On January 12, 1946 Luigi Cavalli-Sforza married Albamaria Ramazzotti. They have 4 children.
