Interview with luigi luca cavalli-sforza: Past research and directions for future investigations in human population genetics

Human Biology

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 245-266

  Manni, Franz ^a  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

Cultural evolution; Evolutionary trees; Genographic project; Geography; Human genome diversity project (HGDP); Human variation; L. L. Cavalli Sforza; La cultura Italiana; Lactose intolerance; Language; Medical genetics; Principal components analysis; Race as a concept; Structure approach

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EID: 77956762680     PISSN: 00187143     EISSN: 15346617     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3378/027.082.0301     Document Type: Note

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