[lit-ideas] Cavalli Sforza
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In a message dated 5/14/2014 9:23:56 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
Cochran and Harpending are not breaking much new ground. Cavalli Sforza
(father and son) wrote The Great Human Diasporas, the History of Diversity
and Evolution” back in 1993. Bryan Sykes has done something very like that
in his Saxons, Vikings, and Celts. Cochran and Harpending have gone beyond
Sykes in some respects but not hugely so.
Interesting. So here we may have a thread to consider in what Oxonians call
"The History of Ideas," ironically. I checked bits of Cavalli Sforza
(father) in Wikipedia, and would be led to believe that his theory was best
formulated once his settled at Stanford, but I guess one can find roots in his
way of thinking other than Stanford-related authors!
Wikipedia spends some time as to how to CALL this area of study or
research, but I'm not convinced that one label is better than any other, so I
chose to use "Cavalli Sforza" as subject line!
The Wikipedia has a segment on criticisms to the approach that may interest
L. Helm. They (the first of the two paragraphs below of a 'critical
evaluation') are in ps.
Cheers,
Speranza
From Wikipedia's entry on Cavalli Sforza:
"Cavalli-Sforza's proposed Human Genome Diversity Project to gather further
genetic data from populations around the world did not advance as he
originally envisioned the project. News articles about his proposal noted that
(unnamed) critics of the project decried it for "cultural insensitivity,
neocolonialism, and biopiracy.""
"Cavalli-Sforza has conducted several studies of how language differences
may serve as barriers to gene flow between adjacent human populations. His
studies of human migration have tested hypotheses of linguists Merritt
Ruhlen and Joseph Greenberg about language "superfamilies." The hypothesized
superfamilies are controversial among other linguists."
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