Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza was an Italian population geneticist who trained as a physician at the University of Pavia, took a research post in genetics at Cambridge under Ronald Fisher, and later held professorships at Parma, Pavia and Stanford. He combined demography with blood group analysis to study human populations and migration, and with A. W. F. Edwards pioneered statistical methods for estimating evolutionary trees. With Marcus Feldman he helped found the study of gene-culture coevolution. His books include The History and Geography of Human Genes and Genes, Peoples, and Languages, which argued that race has little biological meaning. He won the Balzan Prize in 1999 and died in Belluno in 2018.
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25 January 1922 – 31 August 2018) was an Italian geneticist
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25 January 1922-31 August 2018) was an Italian geneticist
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Cavalli-Sforza died on 31 August 2018, at the age of 96 at his home in Belluno, Italy.
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He was a population geneticist who taught at the University of Parma, the University of Pavia, and then at Stanford University.
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In 1999, he won the Balzan Prize for the Science of human origins.
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25 January 1922-31 August 2018) was an Italian geneticist
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He was a population geneticist who taught at the University of Parma, the University of Pavia, and then at Stanford University.
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25 January 1922-31 August 2018) was an Italian geneticist
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