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Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
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- L. Luca Cavalli-Sforza was born on January 25, 1922, in Genoa, Italy, and is variously referred to as a pioneering population geneticist, the founder of genetic anthropology, the person who brought together modern genetics, archaeology, linguistics, and history, and one of the most distinguished geneticists in the world. He received an MD degree from the University of Pavia in 1944; went to Cambridge University for a few years, where he studied bacterial genetics; returned to Italy in 1950,where he served as director or chair of several genetic research positions; and in 1970 was appointed professor of genetics at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. [Source: Encyclopedia of Anthropology; Cavalli-Sforza, Luigi Luca (1922–)]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/Luigi_Luca_Cavalli-Sforza
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