Sicilian genetics practice

The most personal of biological sciences, genetics influence everything about who we are. Our appearance, talents and health - even our identities - are all shaped to a great extent by the genes we inherited through our parents.

Perhaps for this reason, the topic often provokes strong emotions and opinions. (For insights into population genetics, works such as those of the distinguished geneticist Luigi L. Cavalli-Sforza should be consulted; Matt Ridley's Genome is a good introduction for the layman; Steven Oppenheimer's Out of Eden and Spencer Wells' The Journey of Man place pre-historic human migration in perspective.) First, let's define a few terms.

Sicilian genetics practice

Ethnology generally refers to the social study of peoples and the comparative differences among them, in view of culture, history and traditions; ethnography is a methodical identification of peoples based on ethnology.

Genealogy is the historical study of ancestral lineages, descent and kinship. As a research tool, ge