Richard C. Lewontin
1929 - 2021
General Information
Bio
(1929-2021) Geneticist, author. Richard C. Lewontin was born in New York City and died in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Full Name
Richard C. Lewontin
Locations
New York
Author's Timeline
Unknown
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Mr. Lewontin attended Forest Hills High School in Queens, New York.
1929
BIRTH
Richard Lewontin was born in New York City on March 29, 1929.
1954
OTHER
Mr. Lewontin received a master's degree in mathematical statistics at Columbia University in 1952, and a Ph.D. in zoology also at Columbia in 1954.
1960
OTHER
Mr. Lewontin taught at the University of Rochester during the early 1960s.
1982
LITWORK
Human Diversity
Scientific American Books - W. H. Freeman & Co.
0716714698 / 978-0716714699
Nonfiction.
Scientific American Books - W. H. Freeman & Co.
0716714698 / 978-0716714699
Nonfiction.
1984
LITWORK
Not In Our Genes: Biology, Ideology, and Human Nature
Pantheon
0394508173 / 978-0394508177
Nonfiction written by Leon J. Kamin, R. C. Lewontin, and Steven Rose.
Pantheon
0394508173 / 978-0394508177
Nonfiction written by Leon J. Kamin, R. C. Lewontin, and Steven Rose.
1985
LITWORK
The Dialectical Biologist
Harvard University Press
0674202813 / 978-0674202818
Nonfiction written with Richard Levins.
Harvard University Press
0674202813 / 978-0674202818
Nonfiction written with Richard Levins.
1991
LITWORK
Biology as Ideology: The Doctrine of DNA
Harper Perennial
0060975199 / 978-0060975197
Nonfiction.
Harper Perennial
0060975199 / 978-0060975197
Nonfiction.
2000
LITWORK
It Ain't Necessarily So: The Dream of the Human Genome and Other Illusions
New York Review of Books
0940322102 / 978-0940322103
Nonfiction.
New York Review of Books
0940322102 / 978-0940322103
Nonfiction.
2000
LITWORK
The Triple Helix: Gene, Organism, and Environment
Harvard University Press
0674001591 / 978-0674001596
Nonfiction.
Harvard University Press
0674001591 / 978-0674001596
Nonfiction.
2007
LITWORK
Biology Under the Influence: Dialectical Essays on the Coevolution of Nature and Society
Monthly Review Press
1583671587 / 978-1583671580
Nonfiction written with Richard Levins.
Monthly Review Press
1583671587 / 978-1583671580
Nonfiction written with Richard Levins.
2021
DEATH
Richard C. Lewontin died at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on July 4, 2021.
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