Author Description

Population geneticist Cavalli-Sforza summarizes his 40 years of research on the connections between current genetic data and the evolutionary past for general readers. He outlines the fundamentals of evolutionary theory, shows how archaeological and genetic data were used to track human migrations during the spread of agriculture, and probes issues of eugenics, genetic engineering, and the existence of a single ancestral language. Includes bandw illustrations. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR