Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza (born
January 25,
1922) is an
Italian population geneticist born in
Genoa, and currently teaching at
Stanford University. One of the most important geneticists of the century, he has written, among others,
Genes, Peoples, and Languages (
2000) and
The History and Geography of Human Genes (
1994 with Paolo Menozzi and Alberto Piazza).