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  1. (1 other version)The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme.S. J. Gould & R. C. Lewontin - 1994 - In Elliott Sober (ed.), Conceptual Issues in Evolutionary Biology. The Mit Press. Bradford Books. pp. 73-90.
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    The triple helix: gene, organism, and environment.Richard C. Lewontin - 2000 - Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Edited by Richard C. Lewontin.
    One of our most brilliant evolutionary biologists, Richard Lewontin has also been a leading critic of those--scientists and non-scientists alike--who would misuse the science to which he has contributed so much. In The Triple Helix, Lewontin the scientist and Lewontin the critic come together to provide a concise, accessible account of what his work has taught him about biology and about its relevance to human affairs. In the process, he exposes some of the common and troubling misconceptions that misdirect and (...)
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    Not in Our Genes: Biology, Ideology and Human Nature.Steven Rose, Richard Charles Lewontin & Leon J. Kamin - 1984 - Pantheon.
    Three eminent scientists analyze the scientific, social, and political roots of biological determinism.
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    The Dialectical Biologist.Philip Kitcher, Richard Levins & Richard Lewontin - 1989 - Philosophical Review 98 (2):262.
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    Biology as ideology: the doctrine of DNA.Richard C. Lewontin - 1991 - New York, NY: HarperPerennial.
    Following in the fashion of Stephen Jay Gould and Peter Medawar, one of the world's leading scientists examines how "pure science" is in fact shaped and guided by social and political needs and assumptions.
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    Not in Our Genes: Biology, Ideology, and Human Nature.Michael Ruse & R. C. Lewontin - 1984 - Hastings Center Report 14 (6):42.
    Book reviewed in this article: Not In Our Genes: Biology, Ideology, and Human Nature. By R. C. Lewontin, Steven Rose, and Leon J. Kamin.
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  7. The analysis of variance and the analysis of causes.Richard C. Lewontin - 1974 - American Journal of Human Genetics 26 (3):400-11.
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  8. The Triple Helix: Gene, Organism, and Environment.Richard Lewontin - 2000 - Journal of the History of Biology 33 (3):611-612.
     
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  9. The Organism as the Subject and Object of Evolution.Richard C. Lewontin - 1983 - Scientia 77 (18):65.
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  10. Artifact, cause and genic selection.Elliott Sober & Richard C. Lewontin - 1982 - Philosophy of Science 49 (2):157-180.
    Several evolutionary biologists have used a parsimony argument to argue that the single gene is the unit of selection. Since all evolution by natural selection can be represented in terms of selection coefficients attaching to single genes, it is, they say, "more parsimonious" to think that all selection is selection for or against single genes. We examine the limitations of this genic point of view, and then relate our criticisms to a broader view of the role of causal concepts and (...)
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  11. The confusions of fitness.André Ariew & Richard C. Lewontin - 2004 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 55 (2):347-363.
    The central point of this essay is to demonstrate the incommensurability of ‘Darwinian fitness’ with the numeric values associated with reproductive rates used in population genetics. While sometimes both are called ‘fitness’, they are distinct concepts coming from distinct explanatory schemes. Further, we try to outline a possible answer to the following question: from the natural properties of organisms and a knowledge of their environment, can we construct an algorithm for a particular kind of organismic life-history pattern that itself will (...)
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    Elementary errors about evolution.Richard C. Lewontin - 1983 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 6 (3):367-368.
  13. Does culture evolve?Joseph Fracchia & R. C. Lewontin - 1999 - History and Theory 38 (4):52–78.
    The drive to describe cultural history as an evolutionary process has two sources. One from within social theory is part of the impetus to convert social studies into "social sciences" providing them with the status accorded to the natural sciences. The other comes from within biology and biological anthropology in the belief that the theory of evolution must be universal in its application to all functions of all living organisms. The social scientific theory of cultural evolution is pre-Darwinian, employing a (...)
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  14. Dialectics and reductionism in ecology.Richard Levins & Richard Lewontin - 1980 - Synthese 43 (1):47 - 78.
    Biology above the level of the individual organism ? population ecology and genetics, community ecology, biogeography and evolution ? requires the study of intrinsically complex systems. But the dominant philosophies of western science have proven to be inadequate for the study of complexity:(1)The reductionist myth of simplicity leads its advocates to isolate parts as completely as possible and study these parts. It underestimates the importance of interactions in theory, and its recommendations for practice (in agricultural programs or conservation and environmental (...)
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    The Dimensions of Selection.Peter Godfrey-Smith & Richard Lewontin - 1993 - Philosophy of Science 60 (3):373-395.
    Proponents of genic selectionism have claimed that evolutionary processes normally viewed as selection on individuals can be "represented" as selection on alleles. This paper discusses the relationship between mathematical questions about the formal requirements upon state spaces necessary for the representation of different types of evolutionary processes and causal questions about the units of selection in such processes.
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    What do population geneticists know and how do they know it.R. C. Lewontin - 2000 - In Richard Creath & Jane Maienschein (eds.), Biology and epistemology. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 191--214.
  17. The generational cycle of state spaces and adequate genetical representation.Elisabeth A. Lloyd, Richard C. Lewontin & and Marcus W. Feldman - 2008 - Philosophy of Science 75 (2):140-156.
    Most models of generational succession in sexually reproducing populations necessarily move back and forth between genic and genotypic spaces. We show that transitions between and within these spaces are usually hidden by unstated assumptions about processes in these spaces. We also examine a widely endorsed claim regarding the mathematical equivalence of kin-, group-, individual-, and allelic-selection models made by Lee Dugatkin and Kern Reeve. We show that the claimed mathematical equivalence of the models does not hold. *Received January 2007; revised (...)
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  18. The genotype/phenotype distinction.Richard Lewontin - 2008 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
    The distinction between phenotype and genotype is fundamental to the understanding of heredity and development of organisms. The genotype of an organism is the class to which that organism belongs as determined by the description of the actual physical material made up of DNA that was passed to the organism by its parents at the organism's conception. For sexually reproducing organisms that physical material consists of the DNA contributed to the fertilized egg by the sperm and egg of its two (...)
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    The Generational Cycle of State Spaces and Adequate Genetical Representation.Elisabeth A. Lloyd, Richard C. Lewontin & Marcus W. Feldman - 2008 - Philosophy of Science 75 (2):140-156.
    Most models of generational succession in sexually reproducing populations necessarily move back and forth between genic and genotypic spaces. We show that transitions between and within these spaces are usually hidden by unstated assumptions about processes in these spaces. We also examine a widely endorsed claim regarding the mathematical equivalence of kin-, group-, individual-, and allelic-selection models made by Lee Dugatkin and Kern Reeve. We show that the claimed mathematical equivalence of the models does not hold.
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  20. Models, mathematics and metaphors.R. C. Lewontin - 1963 - Synthese 15 (1):222 - 244.
  21. It Ain't Necessarily so: The Dream of the Human Genome and Other Illusions.Richard Lewontin & Ullica Segerstråle - 2002 - Science and Society 66 (2):274-282.
     
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    The bases of conflict in biological explanation.Richard C. Lewontin - 1969 - Journal of the History of Biology 2 (1):35-45.
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    Sociobiology - A Caricature of Darwinism.R. C. Lewontin - 1976 - PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1976:22 - 31.
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    The price of metaphor.Joseph Fracchia & R. C. Lewontin - 2005 - History and Theory 44 (1):14–29.
    In his critical response to our skeptical inquiry, “Does Culture Evolve?” , W. G. Runciman affirms that “Culture Does Evolve.” However, we find nothing in his essay that convinces us to alter our initial position. And we must confess that in composing an answer to Runciman, our first temptation was simply to urge those interested to read our original article—both as a basis for evaluating Runciman’s attempted refutation of it and as a framework for reading this essay, which addresses in (...)
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  25. No está en los Genes. Ed.R. C. Lewontin, S. Rose & L. J. Kamin - forthcoming - Critica.
     
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    Selection never dominates drift.Hayley Clatterbuck, Elliott Sober & Richard Lewontin - 2013 - Biology and Philosophy 28 (4):577-592.
    The probability that the fitter of two alleles will increase in frequency in a population goes up as the product of N (the effective population size) and s (the selection coefficient) increases. Discovering the distribution of values for this product across different alleles in different populations is a very important biological task. However, biologists often use the product Ns to define a different concept; they say that drift “dominates” selection or that drift is “stronger than” selection when Ns is much (...)
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    Facts and the Factitious in Natural Sciences.R. C. Lewontin - 1991 - Critical Inquiry 18 (1):140-153.
    The problem that confronts us when we try to compare the structure of discourse and explanation in different domains of knowledge is that no one is an insider in more than one field, and insider information is essential. An observer who is not immersed in the practice of a particular scholarship and who wants to understand it is at the mercy of the practitioners. Yet those practitioners are themselves mystified by a largely unexamined communal myth of how scholarship is carried (...)
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  28. The Politics of Science.Richard C. Lewontin - forthcoming - New York Review of Books.
     
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    Polymorphism and heterosis: Old wine in new bottles and vice versa.R. C. Lewontin - 1987 - Journal of the History of Biology 20 (3):337-349.
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    In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human HeredityDaniel J. Kevles.Robert Olby, R. Lewontin & Daniel Kevles - 1986 - Isis 77 (2):311-319.
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    Reply to Rosenberg on genic selectionism.Elliott Sober & Richard C. Lewontin - 1983 - Philosophy of Science 50 (4):648-650.
    Rosenberg (1983), in his comments on our article (Sober and Lewontin 1982) concerning the units of selection controversy, has matters precisely backwards. We suggest Rosenberg alludes to a quite different view of the units of selection controversy, one that he never shows to have mattered to any biologists engaged in the dispute. We also reject Rosenberg's remark that the hypothesis of genic selection is currently predictively vacuous.
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  32. L'organismo come soggetto e oggetto dell'evoluzione.R. C. Lewontin - 1983 - Scientia 77 (18):83.
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    Heredity and Heritability.Richard C. Lewontin - 2008 - In Sahorta Sarkar & Anya Plutynski (eds.), Companion to the Philosophy of Biology. Blackwell. pp. 40–57.
    This chapter contains section titled: The Relation of Genotype to Phenotype Statistical Approaches to the Study of Quantitative Characters Problems Raised by Statistical Methodologies Making Quantitative Trait Genes Real Bibliography.
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    A Program for Biology.Richard Levins & Richard Lewontin - 2006 - Biological Theory 1 (4):333-335.
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    Education and Class: The Irrelevance of IQ Genetic Studies.M. Schiff & R. Lewontin - 1987 - British Journal of Educational Studies 35 (3):292-294.
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    On constraints and adaptation.R. C. Lewontin - 1981 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 4 (2):244-245.
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    Sartre, J.-P., 322.R. Kirk, P. Kitcher, S. Kripke, C. LaCasse, D. Lenat, E. LePore, R. Lewontin, Mackie Jl, D. Marr & A. Marras - 2000 - In Don Ross, Andrew Brook & David Thompson (eds.), Dennett’s Philosophy: A Comprehensive Assessment. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
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    Flesh of My Flesh: The Ethics of Cloning Humans a Reader.Gregory E. Pence, George Annas, Stephen Jay Gould, George Johnson, Axel Kahn, Leon Kass, Philip Kitcher, R. C. Lewontin, Gilbert Meilaender, Timothy F. Murphy, National Bioethics Advisory Commission, Chief Justice John Roberts & James D. Watson - 1998 - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
    Flesh of My Flesh is a collection of articles by today's most respected scientists, philosophers, bioethicists, theologians, and law professors about whether we should allow human cloning. It includes historical pieces to provide background for the current debate. Religious, philosophical, and legal points of view are all represented.
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    A la recherche du temps perdu: A Review Essay.Richard C. Lewontin - 1996 - In Andrew Ross (ed.), Science wars. Durham: Duke University Press. pp. 293--301.
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  40. A molecular approach to the study of genic heterozygosity in natural populations. 2, Amount of variation and degree of heterozygosity in natural populations of Drosophila pseudoobscura.R. C. Lewontin & J. L. Hubby - 2014 - In Francisco José Ayala & John C. Avise (eds.), Essential readings in evolutionary biology. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
     
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  41. A rejoinder to William Wimsatt.R. C. Lewontin - 1994 - In James K. Chandler, Arnold Ira Davidson & Harry D. Harootunian (eds.), Questions of evidence: proof, practice, and persuasion across the disciplines. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. pp. 504--509.
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    Biology and social problems.R. C. Lewontin - 1971 - Zygon 6 (3):192-194.
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    Epilogue: Legitimation Is the Name of the Game.R. C. Lewontin - 2008 - In Oren Harman & Michael Dietrich (eds.), Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology. Yale University Press. pp. 372.
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  44. Epistemological problems of a historical science.Richard Lewontin - 1996 - Neusis 5:17-32.
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    Gene, organismo e ambiente: i rapporti causa-effetto in biologia.Richard C. Lewontin - 1998 - Roma: Laterza.
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    Gene talk on target.Richard Lewontin - 1992 - Social Epistemology 6 (2):179 – 181.
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    How much did the brain have to change for speech?R. C. Lewontin - 1990 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 13 (4):740-741.
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    Science for the People.Richard C. Lewontin - 1977 - Edited by Jonathan R. Beckwith.
  49. The structure and confirmation of evolution theory.R. C. Lewontin - 1991 - Biology and Philosophy 6 (4):461-466.
     
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  50. Boston colloquium for philosophy of science.Tomaso Poggio, Daniel Dennett, Robert Berwick, Lynn Margulis, Richard Lewontin, Evelyn Fox Keller, Thomas Starzl, Walter Gilbert, Temple Smith & Jan Sapp - 1996 - Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 27:413-417.
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