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Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza (born January 25 , 1922 ) is an Italian Population Geneticist born in Genoa , who has been a professor at Stanford University since 1970 (now Emeritus ). One of the most important Geneticists of the 20th Century , he has summed up his work for laymen under five topics covered in ''Genes, Peoples, and Languages'' ( 2000 ). Physiologist and evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond praised the work for "demolishing scientists' attempts to classify human populations into races in the same way that they classify birds and other species into races." Cavalli-Sforza's ''The History and Geography of Human Genes'' (ns, Europeans , Inuit or Eskimo s, Southeast Asia ns, Native Americans , Pacific Islander s, South Asia ns and North Africa ns, Sub-Saharan Africa ns, southern-African Khoisan and central-African Pygmies , and Australian Aborigines . Cavalli-Sforza also wrote ''The Great Human Diasporas: The History of Diversity and Evolution'' (with his son Francesco). Once the genetic structure of inheritance had been made plain, Cavalli-Sforza was one of the first scientists to ask whether the genes of modern populations might contain an inherited historical record of the human species. The study of Demographics was already well-established, based on linguistic, cultural, and archaeological clues, but it had become overlaid with Nationalist and Racist ideologies. Cavalli-Sforza initiated a new field of research by combining the concrete findings of demography with a newly-available analysis of Blood Groups in an actual human population. Cavalli-Sforza has studied the connections between Migration patterns and blood groups. While Cavalli-Sforza is most often credited with his work in genetics, he also, in collaboration with (1981) made use of models from population genetics to investigate the transmission of Culturally Transmitted Units . This line of inquiry initiated research into the correlation of patterns of genetic and cultural dispersion. Cavalli-Sforza received his M.D. from the University Of Pavia in 1944 . His post-war studies at Cambridge in the area of bacterial genetics were followed by years of teaching in northern Italy, in Milan , Parma , and Pavia , and a move in 1970 to Stanford , where he found the intellectual culture more open-ended and cooperative, and where he has remained. Quote
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