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Richard C. Lewontin

Richard Lewontin "Science & Politics"

A 2003 interview with marxist and evolutionary geneticist Richard Lewontin on the politics of science.

Against "Sociobiology"

A letter from Stephen Jay Gould, Richard Lewontin and members of the Sociobiology Study Group outlining criticisms of, and objections to, EO…
Gould in Simpsons

Stephen Jay Gould: What Does it Mean to Be a Radical?

Marxist biologists Richard Lewontin and Richard Levins remember the life and career of…
corn

The political economy of hybrid corn

Marxist geneticist Richard Lewontin and economist Jean-Pierre Berlan discuss the economics of and role of capital in the production of hybrid…
agribusiness

Technology, research, and the penetration of capital: the case of U.S. agriculture

Economist Jean-Pierre Berlan and marxist geneticist Richard Lewontin reveal the politics and…

The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm: a critique of the adaptationist programme

Gould and Lewontin's oft-cited paper criticising what they see as the over-reliance on adaptationist explanations of many biologists.
Commodity double helix

The commoditization of science

Ecologist Richard Levins and geneticist Richard Lewontin argue that modern science has been fully incorporated into the process of capitalism,…

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