Stone A Genetic and Cultural Odyssey

The Life and Work of L. Luca Cavalli-Sforza
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-231-50858-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 248 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Stone, Linda

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
1. Science and Society, Genes and Culture
2. From Medicine to Bacterial Genetics (1943–1960)
3. The Shift to Human Populations (1952–1970)
4. Excursions into Human Culture (1970– )
5. Genes, Languages, and Human Prehistory (1970– )
6. On to DNA Polymorphisms and the Y Chromosome (1984– )
7. The Human Genome Diversity Project (1991– )
8. The Legacy
Glossary
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.