A Genetic and Cultural Odyssey : : The Life and Work of L. Luca Cavalli-Sforza / / Linda Stone.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Stone, Linda,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2005]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.) :; 35 illus.
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Chapter 1. Science and Society, Genes and Culture --; Chapter 2. From Medicine to Bacterial Genetics (1943-1960) --; Chapter 3. The Shift to Human Populations (1952-1970) --; Chapter 4. Excursions into Human Culture (1970-) --; Chapter 5. Genes, Languages, and Human Prehistory (1970-) --; Chapter 6. On to DNA Polymorphisms and the Y Chromosome (1984-) --; Chapter 7. The Human Genome Diversity Project (1991- ) --; Chapter 8. The Legacy --; Glossary --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231508582; 9783110442472
• DOI: 10.7312/ston13396
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Linda Stone.

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.