Richard Charles Lewontin (March 29, 1929 – July 4, 2021) was an American evolutionary biologist, mathematician, geneticist, and social commentator. A leader...
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than a direct product of adaptive selection. Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Lewontin brought the term into biology in their 1979 paper "The Spandrels of...
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Genetic Diversity: Lewontin's Fallacy" is a 2003 paper by A. W. F. Edwards. He criticises an argument first made in Richard Lewontin's 1972 article "The...
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doctorate in biology from Harvard University under the guidance of Richard Lewontin and Dan Hartl, continued at Harvard as a Junior Fellow and a Postdoctoral...
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which it is adapted. Advocates for higher levels of selection (such as Richard Lewontin, David Sloan Wilson, and Elliott Sober) suggest that there are many...
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new field quickly became the subject of controversy. Critics, led by Richard Lewontin and Stephen Jay Gould, argued that genes played a role in human behavior...
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Not in Our Genes (category Books by Richard Lewontin)
Ideology and Human Nature is a 1984 book by the evolutionary geneticist Richard Lewontin, the neurobiologist Steven Rose, and the psychologist Leon Kamin, in...
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published until 1939) for Das Kapital. With the evolutionary geneticist Richard Lewontin, Levins had written a number of articles on methodology, philosophy...
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the original on 22 January 2023. Lewontin, Richard (1990). Not In Our Genes. Penguin Books. p. 89. Lewontin, Richard (1990). Not In Our Genes. Penguin...
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racial categorisation by American evolutionary biologist Richard Lewontin. In it, Lewontin presented an analysis of genetic diversity amongst people...
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Stebbins in botany helped to form the modern synthesis. James Crow, Richard Lewontin, Dan Hartl, Marcus Feldman, and Brian Charlesworth trained a generation...
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Gould and Richard Lewontin penned a famous critique, "The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm". According to Gould and Lewontin, evolutionary...
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paper", is a paper by evolutionary biologists Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Lewontin, originally published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological...
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Platonic universals or "Types" are self-organised. Stephen J. Gould and Richard Lewontin proposed biological "spandrels", features created as a byproduct of...
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upon his professional experience, yet well-researched and accurate. Richard Lewontin endorsed Kay's poststructuralist approach and her assertion of the...
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The Dialectical Biologist (category Books by Richard Lewontin)
Dialectical Biologist is a 1985 book by the ecologist Richard Levins and the biologist Richard Lewontin, in which the authors sketch a dialectical approach...
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Buckminster Fuller (redirect from Richard Buckminster Fuller)
Howard was lead designer, architect, and engineer for both companies. Richard Lewontin, a new faculty member in population genetics at North Carolina State...
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Race and genetics (redirect from Lewontin's Argument)
with other primates, and likely predates all human groups. In 1972, Richard Lewontin performed a FST statistical analysis using 17 markers (including blood-group...
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negative reviews of the book, by such figures as Philip Morrison, Richard Lewontin, Alex Comfort, Jacob Bronowski, and more in-depth analyses by Peter...
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genomes of species with small effective population sizes. In 2015 she was awarded the Crafoord Prize by the Royal Swedish Academy (with Richard Lewontin)....
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Estonian wrestler Isadore Nabi, satirical pseudonym of Richard Levins and Richard Lewontin, scientists in the 1960s Mohammad Nabi (born 1985), Afghan...
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earned a Ph.D. in biology at Harvard University in 1978, studying under Richard Lewontin, and went on to do a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California...
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Th. 1981. Dobzhansky's Genetics of Natural Populations I-XLIII. R.C. Lewontin, J.A. Moore, W.B. Provine & B. Wallace, eds. Columbia University Press...
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work of many Soviet scientists. Some evolutionary biologists, such as Richard Lewontin and Stephen Jay Gould, have tried to employ dialectical materialism...
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concept of the reaction norm was later revived by Richard Lewontin. Peirson, B.R. Erick (2012-05-13). "Richard Woltereck (1877-1944)". The Embryo Project Encyclopedia...
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of Israel List of British Jewish scientists Stephen Jay Gould Richard Lewontin Richard Levins Brown, Andrew (15 December 2001). "The Guardian Profile...
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On the Origin of Species. London: John Murray. Gould, Stephen Jay; Richard Lewontin (1979). "The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A...
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awards, including Japan's Order of Culture (2016). In 2015, Ohta and Richard Lewontin were jointly awarded the Crafoord Prize "for their pioneering analyses...
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Richard Machalek (born April 12, 1946) is a social theorist, sociobiologist, and professor of sociology. He is emeritus faculty of sociology at the University...
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central method used to quantify genetic diversity in a seminal paper by Richard Lewontin, "The Apportionment of Human Genetic Diversity". 1951 - F-statistics:...
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