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<h1>The Great Human Diasporas:
<br>The History of Diversity and Evolution</h1>
<h1>Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza + Francesco Cavalli-Sforza</h1>
<div class=3D"note">translated from the Italian by Sarah Thorne</div>
Addison-Wesley 1995
<div class=3D"attrib">A book review by <a href=3D"http://danny.oz.au/">Dann=
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<em>The Great Human Diasporas</em> is a very broad-scale history of
Homo sapiens.  It begins with a portrait of the pygmies and the
hunter-gatherer way of life, then traces the early history of
mankind, moving from the molecular dating of the human-chimp split
and the earliest fossil evidence to the Neandertals and African "Eve".
Cavalli-Sforza (the elder Cavalli-Sforza is the principal author) then
explains the basics of genetics =E2=80=94 Mendelian genetics, selection,
mutation, drift =E2=80=94 and the extent of human genetic diversity =E2=80=
=94
evolutionary trees, blood groups, migrations and the geography of
genetic variation. =20
<p>
This is then, in what is perhaps the central chapter of the book, applied
to the origins of agriculture and the reconstruction of population
movements over the last ten thousand years (especially in Europe).
A long chapter is devoted to linguistic evolution.  Here Cavalli-Sforza
comes out strongly in support of Greenberg and the classification of human
languages into superfamilies, but he is careful to make it clear that this
is a not a position with much support amongst linguists.  A chapter on
the relationship between cultural and genetic evolution explains some
of the differences and the difficulties involved in separating them
(especially when it comes to such things as "intelligence"). This leads
naturally to a chapter on the problems with the term "race" and on the
pathology of racism. =20
</p><p>
Autobiographical perspectives appear occasionally throughout the book,
but in the final chapter Cavalli-Sforza presents his thoughts about the
future and about ethical issues such as abortion and the implications
of modern biotechnology.  Perhaps the best part of <em>The Great Human
Diasporas</em> is the postscript, which is devoted to explaining just how
weak <em>The Bell Curve</em> is as a work of science.  (This is also more
thoroughly referenced than the bulk of the volume.)
</p><p>
<em>The Great Human Diasporas</em> is an outstanding work of popular scienc=
e
and is, along with Lewontin's <em><a href=3D"https://dannyreviews.com/h/Hum=
an_Diversity.html">Human Diversity</a></em>, one of the first books I
would recommend to the layperson interested in human genetics.  It covers
material which I believe should be basic knowledge for everyone, and it
does a great job of making it accessible, so I hope it will be widely
read: it should definitely be in every school library and it is far more
deserving of a place on the best-seller lists than <em>The Bell Curve</em>.
</p><p>
August 1995
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%T	The Great Human Diasporas<br>
%S	The History of Diversity and Evolution<br>
%A	Cavalli-Sforza, Luigi Luca<br>
%A	Cavalli-Sforza, Francesco<br>
%M	Italian<br>
%F	Thorne, Sarah<br>
%I	Addison-Wesley<br>
%D	1995<br>
%O	hardcover, bibliography, index<br>
%G	ISBN 0201407558<br>
%P	xiii,300pp<br>
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