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The Man Who Knew Humanity

Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza (1922–2018)

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Acknowledgement

This essay is a slightly expanded version of an obituary that I wrote in the 10 October 2018 issue of Current Science (Vol.115, No.7, pp.1404-1405).

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  1. National Institute of Biomedical Genomics, Kalyani, India

    Partha P. Majumder

  2. Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India

    Partha P. Majumder

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Majumder, P.P. The Man Who Knew Humanity. Reson 24, 617–622 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12045-019-0820-6

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