The Journal of Heredity 2002:93(5)
© 2002 The American Genetic Association 93:387
Book Review |
The Evolution and Genetics of Latin American Populations
Department of Pathology, UCSD Medical Center, San Diego, CA 92103
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By F. M. Salzano and M. C. Bortolini. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 2002.
This is an extraordinary book by an acknowledged Brazilian master of genetics and his associate. For the first time, the "Latin Americas" (a designation first used by the French) are comprehensively reviewed from an anthropological and genetic point of view. An enormous amount of literature is gathered here, incorporated into a