The Dialectical Biologist

Richard Levins

Richard Lewontin

    Introduction

    1. On Evolution

    Evolution as Theory and Ideology
    Adaptation
    The Organism as the Subject and Object of Evolution

    2. On Analysis

    The Analysis of Variance and the Analysis of Causes
    Isidore Nabi on the Tendencies of Motion
    Dialectics and Reductionism in Ecology

    3. Science as a Social Product and the Social Product of Science

    The Problem of Lysenkoism
    The Commoditizatjon of Science
    The Political Economy of Agricultural Research
    Applied Biology in the Third World
    The Pesticide System
    Research Needs for Latin Community Health
    What Is Human Nature?

    Conclusion: Dialectics

    Bibliography Index

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Richard Levins is John Rock Professor of Population Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health.

Richard Lewontin is Alexander Agassiz Research Professor at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University. His many books include Biology and Ideology, Not in Our Genes, and Human Diversity.