Luigi Cavalli-Sforza

Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza (* 25. január 1922, Janov, Taliansko – † 31. august 2018, Belluno) bol taliansky populačný genetik.

Kariéra 
Narodil sa v Taliansku. V rokoch 1951 až 1962 pôsobil ako profesor genetiky na University of Parma v Parme v Taliansku. Od roku 1970 pôsobí na Stanford University. Je emeritným profesor na School of Medicine na Stanford University.

The Kistler Prize  
V roku 2002 mu bola udelená The Kistler Prize. Je jedným zo zakladateľov Human Genome Diversity Project.

Dielo 
 Cultural Transmision and Evolution. A Quantitative Approach (spoluautor)  (1981)
 The History and Geography of Human Genes (1994)
 The Great Human Diasporas. The History of Diversity and Evolution (spoluautor) (1995)
 Genes, Peoples, and Languages (2000)

Bibliografia 
 Edwards, A.W,F, and Cavalli-Sforza, L.L. : Reconstruction of evolutionary trees. In: Phenetic and Phylogenetic Classification, edited by Heywood, V. H.  and McNeill, J.: Systematics Association pub. no. 6, London 1964
 Cavalli-Sforza, L.L. and Edwards,A.W.F.: Analysis of human evolution. In Genetics Today. Proceedings of the XI International Congress of Genetics, The Hague, The Netherlands, September, 1963, volume 3, Edited by Geerts, S. J.. Pergamon Press, Oxford 1965
 Cavalli-Sforza, L.L. and Edwards, A.W.F.: Phylogenetic analysis: models and estimation procedures. American Journal of Human Genetics 19 / 1967
 Cavalli-Sforza, L. L. and Bodmer, W. F. : The Genetics of Human Populations. W. H. Freeman, San Francisco 1971, reprinted Dover Publications 1999
 Cavalli-Sforza, L. L. and Feldman, M: Cultural Transmission and Evolution. Princeton University Press, Princeton 1981
 Cavalli-Sforza, L. L., Menozzi, P., Piazza, A.: The History and Geography of Human Genes. Princeton University Press, Princeton 1994
 Luigi Luca Cavalli Sforza, Il caso e la necessità, Di Renzo Editore, Roma, 2007

Referencie

Externé odkazy 
 Biografia
 Genes, Peoples, and Languages
 The Great Human Diasporas- The History of Diversity and Evolution

Talianski biológovia
Genetici
Futurológovia
Osobnosti z Janova