Richard C. Lewontin
Richard C. Lewontin is Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of Biology at Harvard University. He is the author of The Genetic Basis of Evolutionary Change and Biology as Ideology, and the co-author of The Dialectical Biologist (with Richard Levins) and Not in Our Genes (with Steven Rose and Leon Kamin).
From the Review
May 28, 2009: Why Darwin?
Darwin's Origin of Species: A Biography by Janet Browne
The Annotated Origin: A Facsimile of the First Edition of On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, annotated by James T. Costa
Why Evolution Is True by Jerry A. Coyne
It Takes a Genome: How a Clash Between Our Genes and Modern Life Is Making Us Sick by Greg Gibson
February 14, 2008: The Triumph of Stephen Jay Gould
The Richness of Life: The Essential Stephen Jay Gould edited by Steven Rose, with a foreword by Oliver Sacks
Punctuated Equilibrium by Stephen Jay Gould
December 15, 2005: Darwin & Progress (letter)
October 20, 2005: The Wars Over Evolution
The Evolution–Creation Struggle by Michael Ruse
Not By Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution by Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd
February 10, 2005: On Fraud in Science: An Exchange
November 18, 2004: Dishonesty in Science
Scientific Integrity in Policymaking: An Investigation into the Bush Administration's Misuse of Science a report by the Union of Concerned Scientists
The Great Betrayal: Fraud in Science by Horace Freeland Judson
June 12, 2003: Is Biology Messy? (letter)
May 1, 2003: Science and Simplicity
Making Sense of Life: Explaining Biological Development with Models, Metaphors, and Machines by Evelyn Fox Keller
Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA by Brenda Maddox
DNA: The Secret of Life by James D. Watson, with Andrew Berry
Watson and DNA: Making a Scientific Revolution by Victor K. McElheny
May 9, 2002: The Politics of Science
Science, Truth, and Democracy by Philip Kitcher
Science, Money, and Politics:Political Triumph and Ethical Erosion by Daniel S. Greenberg
Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution by Francis Fukuyama
October 4, 2001: 'Genes in the Food': An Exchange
July 19, 2001: After the Genome, What Then?
June 21, 2001: Genes in the Food!
The Ecological Risks ofEngineered Crops Jane Rissler and Margaret Mellon
Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply Vandana Shiva
Pandora's Picnic Basket: The Potential and Hazards of Genetically Modified Foods Alan McHughen
Genetically Modified Pest-Protected Plants: Science and Regulation a report by the Committee on Genetically Modified Pest-Protected Plants, Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources, National Research Council
December 3, 1998: 'Higher Superstition': An Exchange
October 22, 1998: Survival of the Nicest?
Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior by Elliott Sober, by David Sloan Wilson
March 5, 1998: 'The Confusion over Cloning': An Exchange
October 23, 1997: The Confusion over Cloning
Cloning Human Beings: Report and Recommendations of the National Bioethics Advisory Commission by the National Bioethics Advisory Commission
March 6, 1997: Science & 'The Demon-Haunted World': An Exchange
January 9, 1997: Billions and Billions of Demons
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan
May 23, 1996: In the Blood
February 29, 1996: The Last of the Nasties?
The Lost World by Michael Crichton
November 2, 1995: Genes and Sexuality: An Exchange
August 10, 1995: 'Sex, Lies, and Social Science': Another Exchange
June 8, 1995: Sex, Lies, and Sociology (letter)
May 25, 1995: 'Sex, Lies, and Social Science': An Exchange
April 20, 1995: Sex, Lies, and Social Science
Science in the Bedroom: A History of Sex Research by Vern L. Bullough
The Social Organization of Sexuality: Sexual Practices in the United States by Edward O. Laumann, by John H. Gagnon, by Robert T. Michael, by Stuart Michaels
Sex in America: A Definitive Survey by Robert T. Michael, by John H. Gagnon, by Edward O. Laumann, by Gina Kolata
July 14, 1994: Women Versus the Biologists: An Exchange
April 7, 1994: Women Versus the Biologists
Exploding the Gene Myth: How Genetic Information is Produced and Manipulated by Scientists, Physicians, Employers, Insurance Companies, Educators, and Law Enforcers by Ruth Hubbard, by Elijah Wald
Biological Woman—The Convenient Myth edited by Ruth Hubbard, edited by Mary Sue Henifin, edited by Barbara Fried
Women's Nature: Rationalizations of Inequality by Marian Lowe, by Ruth Hubbard
Genes and Gender: II, Pitfalls in Research on Sexual Gender edited by Ruth Hubbard, edited by Marian Lowe
The Politics of Women's Biology by Ruth Hubbard
The Shape of Red: Insider/Outsider Reflections by Ruth Hubbard, by Margaret Randall
May 28, 1992: The Dream of the Human Genome
The Code of Codes: Scientific and Social Issues in the Human Genome Project edited by Daniel J. Kevles, edited by Leroy Hood
Mapping the Code: The Human Genome Project and the Choices of Modern Science by Joel Davis
Mapping Our Genes: The Genome Project and the Future of Medicine by Lois Wingerson
Genethics: The Ethics of Engineering Life by David Suzuki, by Peter Knudtson
Mapping and Sequencing the Human Genome Committee on Mapping and Sequencing the Human Genome
Genome: The Story of the Most Astonishing Scientific Adventure of Our Time—The Attempt to Map All the Genes in the Human Body by Jerry E. Bishop, by Michael Waldholz
Exons, Introns, and Talking Genes: The Science Behind the Human Genome Project by Christopher Wills
Dangerous Diagnostics: The Social Power of Biological Information by Dorothy Nelkin, by Laurence Tancredi
DNA Technology in Forensic Science Committee on DNA Technology in Forensic Science
December 6, 1990: 'Darwin and Marx' (letter)
October 25, 1990: Science and Anti-Semitism (letter)
June 14, 1990: Fallen Angels
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould
May 31, 1990: Are We Robots? (letter)
April 27, 1989: The Science of Metamorphoses
Controlling Life: Jacques Loeb and the Engineering Ideal in Biology by Philip J. Pauly
Topobiology: An Introduction to Molecular Embryology by Gerald M. Edelman
October 24, 1985: An Exchange on 'Gender'
October 10, 1985: Darwin, Mendel & the Mind
The Survival of Charles Darwin: A Biography of a Man and an Idea by Ronald W. Clark
The Correspondence of Charles Darwin Volume I: 1821–1836 edited by Frederick Burkhardt, edited by Sydney Smith
Past Masters: Mendel by Vitezslav Orel, translated by Stephen Finn
Past Masters: Lamarck by L.J. Jordanova
Neuronal Man: The Biology of Mind by Jean-Pierre Changeux, translated by Dr. Laurence Garey
January 31, 1985: Plato & Affirmative Action (letter)
October 25, 1984: Plato's Women (letter)
April 12, 1984: A Simple Problem Science Can't Solve
Women in Science: Portraits from a World in Transition by Vivian Gornick
June 30, 1983: The Ducking Stool (letter)
June 16, 1983: Darwin's Revolution
Darwin for Beginners by Jonathan Miller, by Borin Van Loon
Evolution Now: A Century After Darwin edited by John Maynard Smith
Evolution Without Evidence: Charles Darwin and "The Origin of Species" by Barry G. Gale
The Monkey Puzzle: Reshaping the Evolutionary Tree by John Gribbin, by Jeremy Cherfas
The Myths of Human Evolution by Niles Eldredge, by Ian Tattersall
Science on Trial: The Case for Evolution by Douglas J. Futuyma
Abusing Science: The Case Against Creationism by Philip Kitcher, with Patricia Kitcher
Darwinism Defended: A Guide to the Evolution Controversies by Michael Ruse, foreword by Ernst Mayr
April 28, 1983: 'The Corpse in the Elevator': An Exchange
January 20, 1983: The Corpse in the Elevator
Against Biological Determinism Dialectics of Biology Group, edited by Steven Rose
Towards a Liberatory Biology Dialectics of Biology Group, edited by Steven Rose
February 4, 1982: Is Intelligence for Real? An Exchange
October 22, 1981: The Inferiority Complex
The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould
May 31, 1979: The Politics of Sociobiology (letter)
January 25, 1979: Death of TB (letter)
November 13, 1975: Against "Sociobiology" (letter)
From New York Review Books
 | It Ain't Necessarily So (paperback) "Though challenging for the layman, his book will reward persistent readers with a better understanding of the most controversial scientific issues of our day." (Christine Kenneally, The New York Times Book Review) |
 | It Ain't Necessarily So "Though challenging for the layman, his book will reward persistent readers with a better understanding of the most controversial scientific issues of our day." —Christine Kenneally, The New York Times Book Review |
Books by Richard C. Lewontin
The Triple Helix: Gene, Organism, and Environment (2000)
It Ain't Necessarily So: The Dream of the Human Genome and Other Illusions (2000)
Inside and Outside: Gene, Environment, and Organism (1994)
Biology As Ideology: The Doctrine of Dna (1991)
Not in Our Genes: Biology, Ideology, and Human Nature (1984)
Human Diversity (1982)
The Genetic Basis of Evolutionary Chang (1974)