International Balzan Foundation Luigi Luca Cavalli

Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
– Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences (1978)
– Honorary Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge UK (1982)
– President of the American Society of Human Genetics (1989)
– Membre associé du Musée d’Histoire Naturelle de Paris (1990)
– Socio Nazionale dell’Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (1991)
– Foreign Member of the Royal Society, Londra (1992)
– Doctor Honoris Causa of Columbia University, University of Cambridge and
of the Italian universities of Calabria, Bologna, Cagliari, Roma and Sassari.
Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza is the author and co-author of many scientific books
and articles, as well as Popular Science publications.
Scientific books:
– La teoria dell’Urto e le Unità Biologiche Elementari (con A. Buzzati-Traverso),
1948, Milano: Longanesi;
– Analisi Statistica per Medici e Biologi, 1961, prima edizione; 1993, terza edizione,
Torino: Boringhieri;
– The Genetics of Human Populations (with W. Bodmer), 1971, San Francisco:
Freeman, 1999, Mineola, N.Y., Dover Publications;
– Genetics, Evolution, and Man (with W. Bodmer), 1976, San Francisco: Freeman;
edizione italiana Mondatori 1977;
– Cultural Transmission and Evolution: A Quantitative Approach (with M.W.
Feldman), 1981, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press;
– The Neolithic Transition and the Genetics of Populations in Europe (with A.
Ammerman), 1984, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press; edizione italiana
Bollati Boringhieri;
– African Pygmies (ed.), 1986, Orlando, Florida: Academic Press;
– History and Geography of Human Genes (with P. Menozzi e A. Piazza), 1994,
Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press; edizione italiana Adelphi 1997,
2000;
– L’evoluzione della cultura, 2004, Milano: Codice edizioni.
– Consanguinity, Inbreeding, and Genetic Drift in Italy (with Antonio Moroni
and Gianna Zei), 2004, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
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