A Genetic and Cultural Odyssey: The Life and Work of L. Luca Cavalli-Sforza

Linda Stone and Paul F. Lurquin

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May, 2005
Cloth, 248 pages, 35 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-13396-8
$57.00 / £39.50

"This fascinating little book demonstrates that Cavalli-Sforza has blazed a path well worth reading." — Oren Solomon, American Scientist

"As a renaissance scientist in the purist form... Cavalli-Sforza is a giant upon whom many scientists have stood... Highly recommended." — Choice

"A Genetic and Cultural Odyssey is a wonderful journey through the life to date of a giant who is nearly glued to science." — Nyamkhishig Sambuughin, Ph.D., New England Journal of Medicine

"Stone and Lurquin have written a book for readers drawn to the adventures at the frontiers we call science. Weaving together historical, scientific, and biographical details, they bring us the fascinating story of Cavalli-Sforza's contributions to genetics and anthropology." — Joanna Mountain, Stanford University

"Rarely have we seen so careful and yet so revealing an exegesis of

an intellectual biography as we are given in this "Odyssey". And

what a man, what a journey—from genetics of bacteria to the

intertwining of human genetic evolution, culture, and language; of

Nature and Nurture; of DNA with human origins and migrations. No one in the

biological or human sciences can be anything but edified by this lucid and well-

informed account. " — Joshua Lederberg, The Rockefeller University, 1958 Nobel Laureate for Physiology or Medicine

Related Subjects

• Anthropology
• General Biology

About the Author

Linda Stone is professor of anthropology at Washington State University. She is the author of Gender and Culture in America(with Nancy P. McKee); Kinship and Gender: An Introduction; and Illness Beliefs and Feeding the Dead in Hindu Nepal. She lives in Pullman, Washington. Paul Lurquin is professor of genetics at Washington State University. He is the author of The Green Phoenix: A History of Genetically Modified Plants; High Tech Harvest: Understanding Genetically Modified Food Plants; and The Origins of Life and the Universe; and Genes and DNA (with Charlotte Omoto). He lives in Pullman, Washington.

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