Genes, pueblos y lenguas

Cavlli-Sforza presents a history of the human race looking at how humanity spread out of Africa and has changed and evolved. He looks at things such as blood types and proteins explaining why differences might arise between different groups of people. He looks at different of primates such as neanderthals showing how modern man arose. He also gives reasons for genetic variation such as drift and chance. He also looks at groups... Read Full Review

It's difficult to review a book by Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, not because he's obtuse and overly technical - in fact his writing is very readable by non biologists - but because of the fact that this pioneer in population genetics has so much to say about so many fields in modern science drawing from a lifetime of experiences in the field. This is particularly true of GENES, PEOPLES, AND LANGUAGES which is based on lectures... Read Full Review

Five stars is a minimum.I enjoyed every word in this book. No wonder that it is already out of print.I expect a new edition soon.May I ask Professor Cavalli-Sforza to correct the first sentence in page 68. The sentence should read "The only possible pairs are AT,GC,CG or TA....:in front of A in one helix,there can be only T in the other..." Again in page 195 I found " But all {eight} possible word orders exist", I think it... Read Full Review