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Richard C Lewontin

Richard C Lewontin

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
84
Citations
59985
World Ranking
3225
National Ranking
1631

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1979 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1965 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Richard C Lewontin was affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their academic work spanned multiple fields including Health Professions and Arts and Humanities, with specific focus areas within General Health Professions and Philosophy.

Their main topics of research included:

  • Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity
  • Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues
  • Health, Medicine and Society

Throughout their career, Lewontin collaborated frequently with co-authors such as Anthony Jf Griffiths and Jeffrey H Miller.

In terms of scholarly publications, Lewontin contributed to book publications through the University of Bern. A notable work includes the "Introduction to Genetic Analysis, 12th Edition" published in 2020, which has attracted 40 citations.

Their academic recognition included honors such as being named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1979 and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1965.

Best Publications

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

    S. J. Gould;R. C. Lewontin

  • The Apportionment of Human Diversity

    R. C. Lewontin

  • The Dialectical Biologist

    Daniel Simberloff;Richard Levins;Richard Lewontin

  • THE UNITS OF SELECTION

    R. C. Lewontin

  • The Interaction of Selection and Linkage. I. General Considerations; Heterotic Models.

    R C Lewontin

  • Not in Our Genes

    Steven Rose;Richard Lewontin

  • A MOLECULAR APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF GENIC HETEROZYGOSITY IN NATURAL POPULATIONS. II. AMOUNT OF VARIATION AND DEGREE OF HETEROZYGOSITY IN NATURAL POPULATIONS OF DROSOPHILA PSEUDOOBSCURA

    R. C. Lewontin;J. L. Hubby

  • DISTRIBUTION OF GENE FREQUENCY AS A TEST OF THE THEORY OF THE SELECTIVE NEUTRALITY OF POLYMORPHISMS

    R. C. Lewontin;Jesse Krakauer

  • The Triple Helix: Gene, Organism, and Environment

    Richard C. Lewontin

  • On measures of gametic disequilibrium.

    R C Lewontin

  • Not in Our Genes: Biology, Ideology, and Human Nature

    Richard C. Lewontin;Steven Peter Russell Rose;Leon J. Kamin

  • The evolutionary dynamics of complex polymorphisms.

    R. C. Lewontin;Ken-ichi Kojima

  • A molecular approach to the study of genic heterozygosity in natural populations. I. The number of alleles at different loci in Drosophila pseudoobscura.

    J. L. Hubby;R. C. Lewontin

  • HYBRIDIZATION AS A SOURCE OF VARIATION FOR ADAPTATION TO NEW ENVIRONMENTS

    R. C. Lewontin;R. C. Lewontin;L. C. Birch;L. C. Birch

  • Perspective: Evolution and detection of genetic robustness.

    J. Arjan G. M. de Visser;Joachim Hermisson;Günter P. Wagner;Lauren Ancel Meyers

  • The analysis of variance and the analysis of causes

    R C Lewontin

  • On the Measurement of Relative Variability

    R. C. Lewontin

  • EVOLUTION AND DETECTION OF GENETIC ROBUSTNESS

    J. Arjan G. M. De Visser;Joachim Hermisson;Lauren Ancel Meyers;Homayoun Bagheri-Chaichian

  • The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist

    R. C. Lewontin

  • The Selfish Gene

    R. C. Lewontin

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey H Miller
Jeffrey H Miller University of California, Los Angeles
William M. Gelbart
William M. Gelbart University of California, Los Angeles
Stephen Jay Gould
Stephen Jay Gould Harvard University
Steven P. R. Rose
Steven P. R. Rose The Open University
Marcus W. Feldman
Marcus W. Feldman Stanford University
Leon J. Kamin
Leon J. Kamin Princeton University
Jerry A. Coyne
Jerry A. Coyne University of Chicago
Elliott Sober
Elliott Sober University of Wisconsin–Madison
Santiago F. Elena
Santiago F. Elena Santa Fe Institute
Andreas Wagner
Andreas Wagner University of Zurich

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