Born in Genoa, Italy in 1922, Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza was fortunate to have been in medical school during World War II, as Italy did not draft medical students. After the war he became a professor at Cambridge and began what would be a groundbreaking career as a geneticist, eventually becoming the founder of the fields of genetic geography and cultural evolution.
Early in his career Dr. Cavalli-Sforza became convinced that by using genetic information it would be possible to determine where human populations originated and how they spread around the world. Without the benefit of the advanced genetic sequencing technology available today, he had to rely on such things as blood types and old church records. His research and work took him around the world and in 1995 he published his thousand-page masterwork "The History and Geography of Human Genes."
Cavalli-Sforza's once seemingly unlikely claim—that it would be possible to map human migration using genetic data, has since been validated by the more advanced techniques available today. In fact, nowadays millions of people have used a simple inexpensive saliva test to determine where their ancestors came from—which is exactly what Cavalli-Sforza had predicted would be possible.
Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza was born on January 25, 1922, one hundred two years ago today. He died on August 31, 2018.
Early in his career Dr. Cavalli-Sforza became convinced that by using genetic information it would be possible to determine where human populations originated and how they spread around the world. Without the benefit of the advanced genetic sequencing technology available today, he had to rely on such things as blood types and old church records. His research and work took him around the world and in 1995 he published his thousand-page masterwork "The History and Geography of Human Genes."
Cavalli-Sforza's once seemingly unlikely claim—that it would be possible to map human migration using genetic data, has since been validated by the more advanced techniques available today. In fact, nowadays millions of people have used a simple inexpensive saliva test to determine where their ancestors came from—which is exactly what Cavalli-Sforza had predicted would be possible.
Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza was born on January 25, 1922, one hundred two years ago today. He died on August 31, 2018.
Born in Genoa, Italy in 1922, Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza was fortunate to have been in medical school during World War II, as Italy did not draft medical students. After the war he became a professor at Cambridge and began what would be a groundbreaking career as a geneticist, eventually becoming the founder of the fields of genetic geography and cultural evolution.
Early in his career Dr. Cavalli-Sforza became convinced that by using genetic information it would be possible to determine where human populations originated and how they spread around the world. Without the benefit of the advanced genetic sequencing technology available today, he had to rely on such things as blood types and old church records. His research and work took him around the world and in 1995 he published his thousand-page masterwork "The History and Geography of Human Genes."
Cavalli-Sforza's once seemingly unlikely claim—that it would be possible to map human migration using genetic data, has since been validated by the more advanced techniques available today. In fact, nowadays millions of people have used a simple inexpensive saliva test to determine where their ancestors came from—which is exactly what Cavalli-Sforza had predicted would be possible.
Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza was born on January 25, 1922, one hundred two years ago today. He died on August 31, 2018.
Early in his career Dr. Cavalli-Sforza became convinced that by using genetic information it would be possible to determine where human populations originated and how they spread around the world. Without the benefit of the advanced genetic sequencing technology available today, he had to rely on such things as blood types and old church records. His research and work took him around the world and in 1995 he published his thousand-page masterwork "The History and Geography of Human Genes."
Cavalli-Sforza's once seemingly unlikely claim—that it would be possible to map human migration using genetic data, has since been validated by the more advanced techniques available today. In fact, nowadays millions of people have used a simple inexpensive saliva test to determine where their ancestors came from—which is exactly what Cavalli-Sforza had predicted would be possible.
Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza was born on January 25, 1922, one hundred two years ago today. He died on August 31, 2018.
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