Richard Lewontin

ahli biologi asal Amerika Serikat

Richard Charles "Dick" Lewontin (lahir 29 Maret 1929) adalah seorang pakar biologi evolusi, matematikawan, pakar genetik dan komentator sosial asal Amerika Serikat. Sebagai tokoh utama dalam pengembangan dasar matematika dari genetik populasi dan teori evolusi, ia mempionirkan penerapan teknik dari biologi molekuler, seperti gel electrophoresis, untuk mempertanyakan variasi genetik dan evolusi.

Richard Lewontin
LahirRichard Charles Lewontin
29 Maret 1929 (umur 95)
New York City, New York, Amerika Serikat
Tempat tinggalBrattleboro, Vermont
KebangsaanAmerika Serikat
Warga negaraAmerika Serikat
AlmamaterHarvard University
Columbia University
Dikenal atasBiologi evolusi
Genetik populasi
PenghargaanSewall Wright Award (1994), Crafoord Prize (2015), Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal (2017)
Karier ilmiah
BidangGenetik
Biologi evolusi
Genetik populasi
InstitusiHarvard University
North Carolina State University
University of Rochester
University of Chicago
Columbia University
DisertasiThe Effects of Population Density and Composition on Viability in Drosophila melanogaster (1955)
Pembimbing doktoralTheodosius Dobzhansky[1]
Mahasiswa doktoralJoseph Felsenstein
Jerry Coyne
Russell Lande
Martin Kreitman[2]

Referensi

Daftar pustaka

  • Lewontin, R. C.; Kojima, K. (Dec 1960). "The Evolutionary Dynamics of Complex Polymorphisms". Evolution. Society for the Study of Evolution. 14 (4): 458–472. doi:10.2307/2405995. JSTOR 2405995. 
  • Lewontin, R. C. (Jan 1966). "Is Nature Probable or Capricious?". BioScience. University of California Press. 16 (1, Logic in Biological Investigation): 25–27. doi:10.2307/1293548. JSTOR 1293548. 
  • Lewontin, R. C. (1970). "The Units of Selection". Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics. 1: 1–18. doi:10.1146/annurev.es.01.110170.000245. 
  • "The Apportionment of Human Diversity," Evolutionary Biology, vol. 6 (1972) pp. 391–398.
  • Lewontin, R. C. (1974). The Genetic Basis of Evolutionary Change. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-03392-3. 
  • "Adattamento," Enciclopedia Einaudi, (1977) vol. 1, 198–214.
  • "Adaptation," Scientific American, vol. 239, (1978) 212–228.
  • Gould, S. J.; Lewontin, R. C. (1979). "The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 205 (1161): 581–98. Bibcode:1979RSPSB.205..581G. doi:10.1098/rspb.1979.0086. PMID 42062. 
  • Lewontin, R. C. (1995). Human diversity (edisi ke-2nd). New York: Scientific American Library. ISBN 0-7167-6013-4. 
  • "The Organism as Subject and Object of Evolution," Scientia vol. 188 (1983) 65–82.
  • Not in Our Genes: Biology, Ideology and Human Nature (with Steven Rose and Leon J. Kamin) (1984) ISBN 0-394-72888-2
  • The Dialectical Biologist (dengan Richard Levins), Harvard University Press (1985) ISBN 0-674-20283-X
  • Biology as Ideology: The Doctrine of DNA (1991) ISBN 0-06-097519-9
  • The Triple Helix: Gene, Organism, and Environment, Harvard University Press (2000) ISBN 0-674-00159-1
  • It Ain't Necessarily So: The Dream of the Human Genome and Other Illusions, New York Review of Books (2000)
  • Biology Under The Influence: Dialectical Essays on the Coevolution of Nature and Society (with Richard Levins), (2007)

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