Conference
5th MENA Congress for Rare Diseases 2026
The 5th MENA Congress for Rare Diseases 2026 will take place from 9 to 11 April 2026 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. This landmark meeting …
Human Population Genetics and Genomics
Special Issues
Luca Cavalli-Sforza’s legacy, 100 years after his birth
Letter to Editor
"LUCA, as our father"
Matteo Cavalli-Sforza, Francesco Cavalli-Sforza, Luca Tommaso Cavalli-Sforza, Violetta Cavalli-Sforza
Human Population Genetics and Genomics https://doi.org/10.47248/hpgg2101010002
"When Luca was in Cambridge in 1948–1950, working as a research assistant for Ronald A. Fisher, he would at times walk with his professor through the large garden of the Department of Genetics, where experiments were carried out on different kinds of plants, such as Mendel’s peas and certain polyploids. The two would talk at length. Luca had a lot of questions to ask Fisher, but one day he was asked one himself: “Why do people do science?” Luca thought a while about it – he later confessed that he had never considered this before – then he answered: “Out of curiosity?” “No,” – said Fisher – “They do it out of ambition.”