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Luigi Luca Cavalli Sforza (* 25 January 1922 in Genova) is an Italian Populationsgenetiker and taught since 1970 as a professor at the Stanford university, California. It is one the most important Genetiker 20. Century. Its main research area was the reconstruction of the human evolution.
Cavalli Sforza researched over the descent of humans. When the genetic structure of the transmission (DNA) admits became, Cavalli Sforza of one was the first scientist, who asked whether the genes of the today's populations contain also historical information about the process of the transmission. It connected the demographic studies, which develop on linguistic, cultural and archaeological data, but sometimes by nationalistic and racistic ideas affected were, with genetic data, like for example the distribution of the groups of bloods. Thus he undertook to collect many expeditions around blood tests. It set up evolutionary family trees, which were based on genetic, cultural, linguistic, anthropologischen and archaeological data. It provided genetic maps, which showed the distribution and propagation of the genes over the continents. It turned against the organization of humans into races, since humans have a only short evolutionary development behind itself and the genetic differences are far larger within a group than between different groups of peoples: "ÂThe outside characteristics may appear different, but under the skin humans all are closely related. 'He was the founder of the "human Genome Diversity Projects".
Luigi Luca Cavalli Sforza was born on 25 January 1922 in Genova. It began a medicine study at the university in Pavia 1938 and received its doctorate 1944. After short activity as a physician it researched in the area of the population genetics.
It researched after the war in Cambridge in the area of the genetics of the bacteria. 1950 it left Cambridge and was to 1957 director of research for microbiology at the "Istituto Sieroterapico Milanese" in Milan. As further three years it regarded lectures at the universities of Parma and Pavia. 1960 he became a professor for genetics in Pavia and was from 1962 to 1970 professor for genetics and statistics at the universities of Parma and Pavia. It undertook expeditions, in order to collect genetic material (e.g. with the in Africa). it changed 1970 to the Stanford university, where it works as a emeritierter professor since 1992 this very day. Cavalli Sforza was with Alba Buzzati married and has four children.
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