Word: lewontin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...position is in the field of vertebrate behavior, "and that certainly does include someone who characterizes himself as a sociobiologist," Richard C. Lewontin '50, chairman of the division of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, said yesterday. Sociobiology is the study of social behavior in animals...
Rosovsky said last night that he arranged the funding for the position last fall because he was "convinced" by Lewontin "that this was an important area in which they are interested in searching...
Inasmuch as Professor Richard Lewontin '50, Agassiz Professor of Zoology, does not like to have his Sociobiology Study Group called the "Lewontin Group" or Marxists, may I suggest that perhaps the name Lysenkoists might be more appropriate, and meet with his approval? Morton W. Bloomfield Porter Professor of English
...reflect a deliberate misreading of the book. A recent article on the editorial page of The Crimson compared Wilson to Herbert Spencer and attempted to find him guilty by association. This is purely a sophomoric game, just as it would be to compare a modern geneticist of Richard Lewontin's calibre to Lamarck, or to B.F. Skinner. Even during the late sixties, when the emotional energy behind university politics was far greater, it would have been rare for the Crimson to give so much space to such an ill-informed piece. But in those days the tarring and feathering...
...remains a difference between science and ideology, though the development of science may be guided by ideological needs and ends. The truth-value of many aspects of sociobiological theory can now be tested, as Robert Trivers has done in a recent issue of Science. Recent work by Harvard professors Lewontin, Gould, and Levins has scrutinized some important and inadequately worked-out areas of natural selection theory; i,e. the methodology underlying efforts to ascribe phenotypic characters to effects of "heredity" and "environment"; the degree of determinism in evolution; the degree to which optimum genotypes can be favored by selection under...