The distribution of human blood groups is one key to ancient human
migrations: see the LexiLine website pages on this topic at:
http://www.lexiline.com/lexiline/lexi23.htm (try to solve the puzzle
I have posed in the text of the first graphic on that page)
http://www.lexiline.com/lexiline/lexi165.htm
http://www.lexiline.com/lexiline/lexi9.htm
For some general introductory and more sophisticated sources on human
blood groups, see these pages online:
Blood Groups, Blood Typing and Blood Transfusions
http://nobelprize.org/medicine/educational/landsteiner/readmore.html
Racial & Ethnic Distribution of ABO Blood Types
(from L. Beckman, A Contribution to the Physical Anthropology and
Population Genetics which is updated at bloodbook.com)
http://www.bloodbook.com/world-abo.html
Background articles are found at PBS Red Gold
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/redgold/
for example, biographies of famous innovators for the ABO system:
Karl Landsteiner
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/redgold/innovators/bio_landsteiner.html -
Ludwig Hirszfeld
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/redgold/innovators/bio_hirszfeld.html
Hirszfeld is cited as Hirsfeld at
http://www.lexiline.com/lexiline/lexi23.htm
There are many more human blood groups than just the ABO system:
http://jove.prohosting.com/~scarfex/blood/groups.html
A good book on the subject is Human Blood Groups by Geoff Daniels,
Bristol Institute for Transfusion Sciences, Bristol
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/book.asp?ref=0632056460
See also the International Blood Group Reference Laboratory
http://www.blood.co.uk/ibgrl/About/History.htm
Friday, January 7, 2005
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