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Richard Charles Lewontin (March 29, 1929 – July 4, 2021) was an American evolutionary biologist, mathematician, geneticist, and social commentator.
Jul 7, 2021 · Richard C. Lewontin, widely considered one of the most brilliant geneticists of the modern era and a prolific, elegant and often caustic writer who condemned the facile use of genetics and ...
Jul 13, 2021 · Richard Lewontin was a groundbreaking geneticist, best known for bringing molecular tools into evolutionary biology and for his advocacy against the use of science to rationalize structural...
Aug 13, 2021 · Richard Charles “Dick” Lewontin died at age 92 on 4 July, 3 days after Mary Jane, his wife of 73 years. Arguably the most influential population geneticist of the second half of the 20th century, Lewontin laid the theoretical and experimental foundations of modern evolutionary genetics.
Richard (Dick) Lewontin, who died last year at age 92, was a preeminent evolutionist and population geneticist who was also a committed Marxist, a public intellectual, a serious contributor to the philosophy of science, an inspired teacher, and a mentor to legions of students and postdocs.
Jul 9, 2021 · Professor Lewontin is considered one of the most brilliant population geneticists and pioneered the study of genetic variation among humans and other animals. He was a much loved and respected member of the department as well as more broadly at Harvard and, indeed, worldwide.
Jul 21, 2021 · Lewontin carried his radicalism to Harvard; in the Boston SftP chapter, he co-founded the Sociobiology Study Group, beginning a decade of fierce critique against genetic reductionism and its reactionary offshoot, biological determinism.
Jul 5, 2021 · Richard Lewontin was an evolutionary biologist who showed that most genetic variation is within populations rather than between “racial” groups.
Nov 25, 2021 · Richard C. Lewontin, who died earlier this year at age 92, is widely considered to have been the preeminent population geneticist of the last half century (Fig. 1). His work, however, often cast a skeptical eye on his own field, pointing to its limitations as an explanatory framework, as well as the social misuses to which it and allied gene ...
Pioneer of molecular evolution who campaigned against biological racism. Lewontin was a groundbreak-ing geneticist, best known for bringing molecular tools into evolutionary...
