Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
Italian population geneticist
Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza (25 January 1922 – 31 August 2018) was an Italian geneticist. He was a population geneticist who taught at the University of Parma, the University of Pavia and then at Stanford University.
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edit- Cavalli-Sforza and his team state that “Indian tribal and caste populations derive largely from the same genetic heritage of Pleistocene [=10000 to 3 mya] southern and western Asians and have received limited gene flow from external regions since the Holocene [=c 10000 to present]. The phylogeography [=neighbouring branches] of the primal mtDNA and Y-chromosome founders suggest that these southern Asian Pleistocene coastal settlers from Africa would have provided the inocula for the subsequent differentiation of the distinctive eastern and western Eurasian gene pools”
- square brackets added; Cavalli-Sforza 2003).Cavalli-Sforza et al 2003 'The Genetic Heritage of the Earliest Settlers ...' American Journal of Human Genetics 72 (313-32). Quoted from Kazanas, N. (2009). Indo-Aryan origins and other Vedic issues. Chapter 9