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Sep 3, 2021 · In 1972, Lewontin took his interest in genetic diversity in an explicitly political direction when he published a paper demonstrating that only about 6 percent of human genetic variation exists...
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Of the many significant contributions that Lewontin made in his career, his analysis of the fallacy of racial classification in humans is one of his most important. It stands on a simple mathematical principle—indeed one that Fisher himself created—the amount of variation within versus among groups. Since the 1970s, subsequent analyses utilizing ev...
Dr. Joseph Graves, Jr. received his PhD in Environmental, Evolutionary and Systematic Biology from Wayne State University in 1988. His research in the evolutionary genomics of adaptation shapes our understanding of biological aging and bacterial responses to nanomaterials. He is the author ofThe Emperor’s New Clothes: Biological Theories of Race at...
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Aug 13, 2021 · DOI: 10.1126/science.abl5430. 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.
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Apr 18, 2022 · Though differing in detail (using indirect estimates of genetic variance in an example trait versus direct observation of genotypic data) and imprecise in defining a criterion for race, the approach foreshadows Lewontin's work on human genetic diversity in the 1972 Apportionment paper.
Nov 25, 2021 · Home. Biological Theory. Article. Remembering Richard Lewontin (1929–2021) Commemoration. Published: 25 November 2021. Volume 16 , pages 257–267, ( 2021 ) Cite this article. Download PDF. Stuart A. Newman, Peter Godfrey-Smith, Daniel L. Hartl, Philip Kitcher, Diane B. Paul, John Beatty, Sahotra Sarkar, Elliott Sober & William C. Wimsatt.
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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. Richard and Mary Jane Lewontin, Canterbury, U.K., 1971.
In a landmark paper published in 1972, Lewontin identified that most of the variation (80–85%) within human populations is found within local geographic groups, and differences attributable to the "race" groups defined in his study are a minor part of human genetic variability (1–15%).
