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Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
Researcher at Stanford University
Publications - 297
Citations - 57775
Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza is an academic researcher from Stanford University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Restriction fragment length polymorphism. The author has an hindex of 94, co-authored 297 publications receiving 56296 citations. Previous affiliations of Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza include University of Oxford & University of Pavia.
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Phylogenetic analysis. Models and estimation procedures.
TL;DR: This paper shows how suitable evolutionary models can be constructed and applied objectively and how the type of data will affect both the method of treatment and the validity of the results.
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The history and geography of human genes
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The History and Geography of Human Genes.
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Cultural transmission and evolution: a quantitative approach
TL;DR: A mathematical theory of the non-genetic transmission of cultural traits is developed that provides a framework for future investigations in quantitative social and anthropological science and concludes that cultural transmission is an essential factor in the study of cultural change.
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Worldwide human relationships inferred from genome-wide patterns of variation.
Jun Li,Devin Absher,Hua Tang,Audrey Southwick,Amanda M. Casto,Sohini Ramachandran,Howard M. Cann,Gregory S. Barsh,Marcus W. Feldman,Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza,Richard M. Myers +10 more
TL;DR: A pattern of ancestral allele frequency distributions that reflects variation in population dynamics among geographic regions is observed and is consistent with the hypothesis of a serial founder effect with a single origin in sub-Saharan Africa.