How Far From the Tree?
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Description: Mark Ridley reviews 'Genes, Peoples and Languages' by Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza.
Reconstructing our evolutionary history using modern genetic data. By Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza. Translated by Mark Seielstad. North Point Press/Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $24. human being is a walking archive of historical evidence. Our ancestry as fishes shows up every time we choke. Our windpipes are in front of our throats, though our mouths are below our noses, and the absurd crossover from mouth to throat is evolutionarily descended from a sensible plumbing system in fish. But our genes are an even better source of historical evidence than our anatomies, and there is no better historical reader of our genes than Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza. In ''Genes, Peoples, and Languages,'' he says that in 1951 he began ''wondering whether it was possible to reconstruct the history of human evolution using genetic data from living populations.'' Since then he has invented a new way of studying human evolution.
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