Geni, popoli e lingue

I’ve been meaning to read this for a while — even before coming across it in Steven Pinker’s The Language Instinct — because genes and languages are two interests of mine. I’m not much for statistics and I found it difficult to follow some of the analyses of the data in this book, but fortunately, C Leggi tutto

كتاب دسم جداً وقيّم .. وهو على الجانب الآخر علمي بحت يستلزم خلفية علمية جيدة قبل الشروع بالقراءة مما يعني أن البعض قد يواجه صعوبات تتعلق بماهية التوزيع الجيني وتنوعات الكروموسومات وما يتعلق بها التي يربطها لويجي كافللي بشكل مباشر بموضوع تطور الشعوب عرقيا وثقافياً يظهر ذلك جليا في فصل اللغة إذ قدمه ك Leggi tutto

A fascinating foray into population genetics, bristling with excitement about what we've learned from new advances in genome sequencing. Cavalli-Sforza, a geneticist, provides a good view of how the science is actually conducted, constructing a thorough survey of population migration and human evolu Leggi tutto

The book is very redundant. It can be pretty much condensed down to two main ideas: genetic variation has been used to fairly accurately track patterns of human migration, and this data correlates very closely with linguistic studies that have led to models of human migration. The ideas themselves a Leggi tutto

Interesting book, very informative in terms of the genetics side of things. However, perhaps he should have stuck to genetic evolution and not gone off into territory he knows little about (linguistics). As a linguist, I can say that the majority of what he says about linguistics and even the lingui Leggi tutto

I found this book frustrating. It's a translation (I even read somewhere that it's a translation of a translation, which is never a good idea), and it's not a good one. I don't read Italian well enough to read the original, so I can't say how many of the problems are the author's fault, but if they

الغاز الجينات وقد صارت كتابا يقرأ وتاريخ كامل للبشريه اصبح من الممكن جمع اجزائه وفهم متناقضاته و موطن اوائل البشر على الارض والى اين انتقلوا ولماذا متى تكلموا وعملوا وكيف عرفوا الزراعه وكيف انتشرت قديما بدايه كل معارف البشر بل بدايه كل شئ من حواء الافريقيه الى اسيا واوربا ثم الامريكيتين وكيف تطورت جين Leggi tutto