(READ)-Genes, Peoples, and Languages

Luigi Luca CavalliSforza was among the first to ask whether the genes of modern populations contain a historical record of the human species CavalliSforza and others have answered this questionanticipated by Darwinwith a decisive yes Genes Peoples and Languages comprises five lectures that serve as a summation of the authors work over several decades the goal of which has been nothing less than tracking the past hundred thousand years of human evolutionCavalliSforza 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 CavalliSforza explains why there is no genetic basis for racial classification

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