Legacy: A Genetic History of the Jewish People

by Harry Ostrer

Book Overview

Who are the Jews--a race, a people, a religious group? For over a century, non-Jews and Jews alike have tried to identify who they were--first applying the methods of physical anthropology and more recently of population genetics.

In Legacy, Harry Ostrer, a medical geneticist and authority on the genetics of the Jewish people, explores not only the history of these efforts, but also the insights that genetics has provided about the histories...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195379616
• ISBN13: 9780195379617
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.3"