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Thinking about Evolution - Historical, Philosophical, and Political Perspectives (Paperback)
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Thinking about Evolution - Historical, Philosophical, and Political Perspectives (Paperback)
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This is the second of two volumes published by Cambridge University
Press in honor of Richard Lewontin. The first volume, Evolutionary
Genetics from Molecules to Morphology, honors Lewontin's more
technical contributions to genetics and evolutionary biology. This
second volume of essays honors the philosophical, historical, and
political dimensions of his work. Given the range of Lewontin's own
contributions, it is fitting that the volume covers such a wide
range of perspectives on modern biology. He was a very successful
practitioner of evolutionary genetics, a rigorous critic of the
practices of genetics and evolutionary biology, as well as an
articulate analyst of the social, political, and economic contexts
and consequences of genetic and evolutionary research. The volume
contains an essay by Lewontin on Natural History and Formalism in
Evolutionary Genetics, and an extended interview with Lewontin,
covering the history of evolutionary genetics as seen from his
perspective and exemplified by his career. The remaining chapters,
contributed by former students, post-docs, colleagues, and
collaborators, cover issues ranging from the history and conceptual
foundations of evolutionary biology and genetics, to the
implications of human genetic diversity, to the political economy
of agriculture and public health.
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