Genes, Peoples, and Languages

Name: Genes, Peoples, and Languages
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ISBN: 9780520228733

ISBN-10: 0520228731

ISBN-13: 9780520228733

Edition: 2001 (Reprint)

Authors: Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza

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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 Languagescomprises 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…

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List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 4/3/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 239
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments



Genes and History



A Walk in the Woods



Of Adam and Eve



Technological Revolutions and Gene Geography



Genes and Languages



Cultural Transmission and Evolution


Bibliography


Index