What is Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza?
[[File:Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza - Capo di Ponte (Foto Luca Giarelli).jpg|thumb|right|200px|Cavalli-Sforza, October 2010]] [[File:The history and geography of human genes Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza map genetic.png|thumb|300px|Genetic distance map by Cavalli-Sforza et al. (1994) <ref>Cavalli-Sforza, L.L., Menozzi, P. & Piazza, A. (1994). The History and Geography of Human Genes. New Jersey: Princeton University Press.</ref>]] '''Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza''' 25 January 1922 – 31 August 2018) was an [[Italy|Italian]] [[population genetics|population]] [[geneticist]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.gen.cam.ac.uk/department/department-history|title=History of the Department — Department of Genetics|last=Edwards|first=Prof Anthony|date=2015|website=www.gen.cam.ac.uk|at=Para 5|language=en|access-date=2016-01-01|archive-date=2013-10-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131030182954/http://www.gen.cam.ac.uk/department/department-history|url-status=dead}}</ref> He lectured at [[Stanford University]]. Cavalli-Sforza won the [[Weldon Memorial Prize]] in 1978. He was born in [[Genoa]], Italy. Cavalli-Sforza's ''The History and Geography of Human Genes''<ref>Cavalli-Sforza L.L; P. Menozzi, A. Piazza. 1994. ''The History and Geography of Human Genes.'' Princeton University Press, Princeton. {{ISBN|0-691-02905-9}}</ref> (1994 with Paolo Menozzi and Alberto Piazza) is a standard reference on [[human genetic variation]]. Cavalli-Sforza also wrote ''The Great Human Diasporas: The History of Diversity and Evolution'' (together with his son Francesco). Earlier, in the 1970s, he and [[Walter Bodmer]] wrote what was the standard textbook on modern human genetics, ''The Genetics of Human Populations''. WHFreeman, 1971. The two, with Bodmer as first author, later wrote another more basic text, ''Genetics, Evolution, and Man'' WHFreeman, 1976. Together with his 1994 book they show human genetics before the genomics era began giving much more detailed data. Cavalli-Sforza died on 31 August 2018 in [[Belluno]], Italy at the a