Addio a Cavalli-Sforza

[Angela]

May he rest in peace.

Thanks to Iosif Lazaridis for tweeting about it. It's on Graham Coop's tweet a well.

The passing of a legend...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Luca_Cavalli-Sforza

Last interview of which I'm aware:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C82-RUFvbgI

 

[don_joe]

He is the reason why I ended up here at all. Sad news.

 

[Angela]

Good piece on Cavalli-Sforza by John Hawks.

See:

https://medium.com/@johnhawks/the-man-who-tried-to-catalog-humanity-b433c3f31872

That's the thing about visionaries: on not much evidence they can intuit some connections not seen by most people. He was absolutely correct that the switch to agriculture impacted adaptation and therefore evolution in myriad ways, as we're only discovering recently.

What is not enough emphasized is that he made so many of these leaps with such limited tools at his disposal.

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