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Agassiz Professor of Zoology Richard C. Lewontin '50-'51 and Professor of Biology Daniel L. Hartl object to the forensic use of DNA finger-printing, or profiling. They contend that the accuracy claimed by current statistical techniques is overstated...
Professor of Biology Daniel L. Hartl is onescientist who has problems with the use of DNAtyping as evidence. In an influential 1991 articlein Science which he co-wrote with AgassizProfessor of Zoology Richard C. Lewontin '50,Hartl argues that DNA typing currently has twomajor flaws...
Agassiz Professor of Zoology Richard C. Lewontin spends his spare time fighting fires as president of the volunteer fire company in Marlboro...
...vote no would be to condone U.S. funding of oppression and armed violence against civilians and to deny an entire people their right to determine their destiny. Justice demands we vote yes on Question 5. We urge everyone to do so. Ruth Hubbard Richard Lewontin Everett Mendelsohn George Wald
Undoubtedly, the controversy will rage on, but Lewontin and his co-authors have done an excellent job of criticizing the sociobiological point of view. Not in Our Genes is an entertaining and informative critique of the too-often trumpeted cause of genetic determinism...