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).
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Distressed Genes: An Exchange
January 10, 2013
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Is There a Jewish Gene?
December 6, 2012
Legacy: A Genetic History of the Jewish People
by Harry Ostrer
The Genealogical Science: The Search for Jewish Origins and the Politics of Epistemology
by Nadia Abu El-Haj
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Let the DNA Fit the Crime
February 23, 2012
The Central Park Five: A Chronicle of a City Wilding
by Sarah Burns
Genetic Justice: DNA Data Banks, Criminal Investigations, and Civil Liberties
by Sheldon Krimsky and Tania Simoncelli
Convicting The Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong
by Brandon L. Garrett
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What Genes Can’t Tell Us: An Exchange
October 13, 2011
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It’s Even Less in Your Genes
May 26, 2011
The Mirage of a Space Between Nature and Nurture
by Evelyn Fox Keller
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‘What Darwin Got Wrong’
September 30, 2010
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Not So Natural Selection
May 27, 2010
What Darwin Got Wrong
by Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini
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Why Darwin?
May 28, 2009
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
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The Triumph of Stephen Jay Gould
February 14, 2008
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
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Darwin & Progress
December 15, 2005
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The Wars Over Evolution
October 20, 2005
The Evolution–Creation Struggle
by Michael Ruse
Not By Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution
by Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd
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On Fraud in Science: An Exchange
February 10, 2005
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Dishonesty in Science
November 18, 2004
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
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Is Biology Messy?
June 12, 2003
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Science and Simplicity
May 1, 2003
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
Watson and DNA: Making a Scientific Revolution
by Victor K. McElheny
DNA: The Secret of Life
by James D. Watson, with Andrew Berry
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The Politics of Science
May 9, 2002
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
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‘Genes in the Food’: An Exchange
October 4, 2001
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After the Genome, What Then?
July 19, 2001
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Genes in the Food!
June 21, 2001
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
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‘Higher Superstition’: An Exchange
December 3, 1998
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Survival of the Nicest?
October 22, 1998
Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior
by Elliott Sober, by David Sloan Wilson
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‘The Confusion over Cloning’: An Exchange
March 5, 1998
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The Confusion over Cloning
October 23, 1997
Cloning Human Beings: Report and Recommendations of the National Bioethics Advisory Commission by the National Bioethics Advisory Commission
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Science & ‘The Demon-Haunted World’: An Exchange
March 6, 1997
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Billions and Billions of Demons
January 9, 1997
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan
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In the Blood
May 23, 1996
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The Last of the Nasties?
February 29, 1996
The Lost World by Michael Crichton
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Genes and Sexuality: An Exchange
November 2, 1995
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‘Sex, Lies, and Social Science’: Another Exchange
August 10, 1995
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Sex, Lies, and Sociology
June 8, 1995
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‘Sex, Lies, and Social Science’: An Exchange
May 25, 1995
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Sex, Lies, and Social Science
April 20, 1995
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
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Women Versus the Biologists: An Exchange
July 14, 1994
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Women Versus the Biologists
April 7, 1994
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 WomanThe 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
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The Dream of the Human Genome
May 28, 1992
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 TimeThe 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
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‘Darwin and Marx’
December 6, 1990
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Science and Anti-Semitism
October 25, 1990
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Fallen Angels
June 14, 1990
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould
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Are We Robots?
May 31, 1990
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The Science of Metamorphoses
April 27, 1989
Controlling Life: Jacques Loeb and the Engineering Ideal in Biology by Philip J. Pauly
Topobiology: An Introduction to Molecular Embryology
by Gerald M. Edelman
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An Exchange on ‘Gender’
October 24, 1985
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Darwin, Mendel & the Mind
October 10, 1985
The Survival of Charles Darwin: A Biography of a Man and an Idea
by Ronald W. Clark
The Correspondence of Charles Darwin Volume I: 18211836 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
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Plato & Affirmative Action
January 31, 1985
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Plato’s Women
October 25, 1984
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A Simple Problem Science Can’t Solve
April 12, 1984
Women in Science: Portraits from a World in Transition by Vivian Gornick
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The Ducking Stool
June 30, 1983
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Darwin’s Revolution
June 16, 1983
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
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‘The Corpse in the Elevator’: An Exchange
April 28, 1983
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The Corpse in the Elevator
January 20, 1983
Against Biological Determinism Dialectics of Biology Group, edited by Steven Rose
Towards a Liberatory Biology Dialectics of Biology Group, edited by Steven Rose
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Is Intelligence for Real? An Exchange
February 4, 1982
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The Inferiority Complex
October 22, 1981
The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould
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The Politics of Sociobiology
May 31, 1979
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Death of TB
January 25, 1979
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Against “Sociobiology”
November 13, 1975