Not In Our Genes
- 322 pages
- 12 hours of reading
Three eminent scientists analyze the scientific, social, and political roots of biological determinism.
Richard Lewontin Book order
March 29, 1929 – July 4, 2021
An evolutionary biologist, geneticist, and social commentator, this author was instrumental in developing the mathematical foundations of population genetics and evolutionary theory. Their work delves into profound questions about life, evolution, and human nature, with an influence that extends far beyond the scientific realm.
- 2017
- 2000
Rejecting the notion that genes determine the organism, which then adapts to the environment, he explains that organisms, influenced in their development by their circumstances, in turn create, modify, and choose the environment in which they live."--BOOK JACKET.
- 1993
The Doctrine of DNA
- 144 pages
- 6 hours of reading
This book, the latest in the continuing debate between the genetic reductionists (such as Richard Dawkins, John Maynard Smith and E.O. Wilson) and those who argue for a rather more complex relationship between genes and the environment (such as Stephen Jay Gould, Steven Rose and Niles Eldredge). Lewontin is a forceful writer and this is an effective statement of the case against the selfish gene.
- 1993
Biology as Ideology
- 144 pages
- 6 hours of reading
Following in the fashion of Stephen Jay Gould and Peter Medawar, one of the world's leading scientists examines how "pure science" is in fact shaped and guided by social and political needs and assumptions.