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Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza

Genes, Peoples, and Languages Paperback – 27 Sept. 2001

by Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza (Author), Mark Seielstad (Translator)

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Historians relying on written records can tell us nothing about the 99.9% of human evolution which preceded the invention of writing. It is the study of genetic variation, backed up by language and archaeology, which provides concrete evidence aboutthe spread of farming, the movements of peoples across the globe, the precise links between races - and the sheer unscientific absurdity of racism. Genes, Peoples and Languages offers an astonishing investigation into the past 100,000 years of human history and a rare, firsthand account of some of the most significant and gripping scientific work of recent years. Cavalli-Sforza is one of the great founding fathers of archaeogenetics, and in this book he maps out some of its grand themes.

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240 pages
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Penguin
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27 Sept. 2001
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12.9 x 1.4 x 19.8 cm
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0140296026
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978-0140296020
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Cavalli-Sforza was born in Genoa in 1922 and has taught at the universities of Cambridge, Parma and Pavia. He is currently Professor Emeritus of Genetics at Stanford University. He is the author of THE HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY OF THE HUMAN GENE.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin (27 Sept. 2001)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0140296026
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0140296020
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.9 x 1.4 x 19.8 cm

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Nick Smith

Superb, even for a non scientist like me

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A wonderful book - this is a second copy for presentation to a friend

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Ross

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Although a lot of interesting books have been written in the last few years about deep ancestry and the origins of humanity it is important to have a work that concisely and authoritatively brings together the current broadly accepted ideas as they stand today. 'Genes, Peoples and Languages' reconstructs prehistory by using the concepts that are explained in the title and gives an outline of the origins of all the major populations in the world and their relationship to each other.

Other works of recent years have proposed new theories that challenge or modify the orthodox ideas on human origins but to make sense of newer theories it is necessary to understand how the accepted views were arrived at.

Some of the dry technical aspects of the methodology can be a little tedious at times but they don't take too long to read, and aren't necessary to understand precisely in order to grasp the conclusions that Cavelli-Sforza derives from them.

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The Bio-Anthropological Manifesto of Gobalization

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Is Cavalli-Sforza a global? Does he have a hidden agenda ? After reading this book was all I could think of. For sure he is an Italian aristocrat that found himself in high spheres of society before and after WWII. The book openly directed (read preface) to the commoner is a misleading series of predigested academic considerations on how (he says) there are no considerable differences within homo. What?? So why did he spend a lifetime studing and lecturing on Genetics? Are physiognomical differences among our species just adaptation to different climatic conditions? He seems to be all for it folks!
Honestly, from a scientist of his caliber I expecetd more.
Unless.. He had a purpose for misleading the "commoner". For sure the book is in no ways any less irrational (knowledge always seems to be a priviledge for the few) than the other scientifc publications in the field. It appears that the only parts that he wanted "everyone" to understand clearly were his considerations. Lucid and rational there, but nontheless criptical and superficial on technicalities. .. Of course.

Summarizing this book: Racism wrong, let's all forget about nations all live all together under a single flag! and.. let's give more money to the geneticists anyway.

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Anomalies in linguistic anthropology explained by genetic research

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 19 October 2015

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A fascinating summary of what genetic science has uncovered, leaving the reader with a thirst to find out more, particularly about the earliest Mariners...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 17 January 2014

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The book is readable, and does not require any depth of scientific knowledge, while setting out the history of the peoples on the planet

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 17 April 2015

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Good and intelligent book. Content was at the edge but in this field updates are soon required.

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Ms. Z. Bremer

Good source of information on human history

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I have another book (on languages) that cites this. Although not very well indexed, it is certainly a good source of information about migration of peoples.

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Roberto

I read this mostly because it's a classic referenced from ...

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I read this mostly because it's a classic referenced from many other books. It's okay, though IIRC some of its theses have been questioned of lately.

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