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By Linda Stone and Paul F. Lurquin. 227 pp., illustrated. New York, Columbia University Press, 2005. $47.50. ISBN 0-231-13396-0.

Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza is one of the most influential population geneticists of our time. Now in his 80s, he is a principal investigator and professor emeritus in the Department of Genetics at Stanford University School of Medicine. I first encountered Cavalli-Sforza's name in 1992, when my Ph.D. thesis adviser, Dr. Iury Rychkov, well known in the field of anthropogenetics, showed me an issue of the journal Gene Geography, published by the University of Pavia, in Italy. The University of Pavia is Cavalli-Sforza's alma mater, where he trained as a physician and conducted his first experiments in measuring the virulence of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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