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Richard C. Lewontin '50, Agassiz Professor of Zoology, and Stephen J. Gould, professor of Biology, have guaranteed any student who turns in a ten page paper at least a B, while longer papers have been graded B or above, based on content. Gould says he and Lewontin have always wanted to give the course credit/non-credit, but in that case it could not be offered within...
...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
...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...