The Genetics of Human Populations

by Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, W.F. Bodmer

Comprehensive, advanced treatment of the nature and source of inherited characteristics, and mathematical techniques of population genetics. Mendelian populations, mutations, polymorphisms, genetic demography and natural selection, inbreeding, sexual dimorphism and human evolution, eugenics, euphenics, more. Emphasis on interpretation of data in relation to theoretical models. Minimal math background required.

Genres: Science, Biology, Genetics, Nonfiction, Evolution, Anthropology

981 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1971

About the author

Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza was an Italian population geneticist born in Genoa who has been a professor at Stanford University since 1970.