Alberto Piazza

Alberto Piazza (18 October 1941 – 18 May 2024) was an Italian human geneticist who was Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Turin.

Biography
Born into a Jewish family in Turin, professor of Medical statistics at the University of Turin, professor of Genetics at the University of Naples, and professor of Human Genetics at the University of Turin.

A disciple of Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, in 2001 he published a monumental study concluding that the human races do not exist and that all humans belong to a unique species.

Piazza died on 18 May 2024, at the age of 82.

Works

 * (with Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza and Paolo Menozzi) The history and geography of human genes, Princeton University Press, 1994.