O Prof. R. C. Lewontin é biólogo e especialista em genética. Professor na Universidade de Harvard.
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"Richard Charles "Dick" Lewontin (born March 29, 1929) is an American evolutionary biologist, geneticist and social commentator. A leader in developing the mathematical basis of population genetics and evolutionary theory, he pioneered the notion of using techniques from molecular biology such as gel electrophoresis to apply to questions of genetic variation and evolution.
In a pair of 1966 papers co-authored with J.L. Hubby in the journal Genetics, Lewontin helped set the stage for the modern field of molecular evolution.
In 1979, he and Stephen Jay Gould introduced the term "spandrel" to evolutionary theory. A spandrel is something that evolves as the necessary result of another trait, which in turn evolved under selection pressure. More generally, he opposed what he saw as the genetic determinism of sociobiology and evolutionary psychology. "
"Bibliography
Lewontin, R. C.; K. Kojima (1960). "The evolutionary dynamics of complex polymorphisms". Evolution 14: 458-472.
Lewontin, R. C. (1966). "Is Nature Probable or Capricious?". Bio Science 16: 25-27.
Lewontin, R. C.; J. L. Hubby (1966). "A molecular approach to the study of genic heterozygosity in natural populations. II. Amount of variation and degree of heterozygosity in natural populations of Drosophila pseudoobscura.". Genetics 54: 595-609.
Lewontin, R. C. (1970). "The Units of Selection". Annual Reviews of Ecology and Systematics 1: 1-18.
"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 Einnaudi, (1977) vol. 1, 198-214.
"Adaptation," Scientific American, vol. 239, (1978) 212-228.
Gould, S.J., and Richard Lewontin (1979). "The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossion paradigm: a critique of the adaptationist programme". Proc R Soc Lond B 205: 581-598.
Lewontin, R. C. (1995). Human diversity, 2nd edition, 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 (with 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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Na contra-capa deste livro, publicado pela Relógio d' Água, Lisboa, em 1998 (com revisão científica de Bracinha Vieira e numa colecção coordenada por Nuno Nabais), transcreve-se a afirmação do autor, que traduz a mensagem do livro, segundo a qual "colocámos a ciência num pedestal, tratando-a como um corpo objectivo de conhecimento que transcende todas as outras formas de conhecer e trabalhar.
"A ciência é uma instituição social (...)".
Este conjunto de ensaios, muito fáceis de ler para o não especialista, resulta de um conjunto de conferências na rádio, mantendo esse estilo coloquial.
Recomendo!
_____
autor citado por Tim Ingold, na sua obra já clássica "The Perception of the Environment"
De:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lewontin transcrevo:
"Richard Charles "Dick" Lewontin (born March 29, 1929) is an American evolutionary biologist, geneticist and social commentator. A leader in developing the mathematical basis of population genetics and evolutionary theory, he pioneered the notion of using techniques from molecular biology such as gel electrophoresis to apply to questions of genetic variation and evolution.
In a pair of 1966 papers co-authored with J.L. Hubby in the journal Genetics, Lewontin helped set the stage for the modern field of molecular evolution.
In 1979, he and Stephen Jay Gould introduced the term "spandrel" to evolutionary theory. A spandrel is something that evolves as the necessary result of another trait, which in turn evolved under selection pressure. More generally, he opposed what he saw as the genetic determinism of sociobiology and evolutionary psychology. "
"Bibliography
Lewontin, R. C.; K. Kojima (1960). "The evolutionary dynamics of complex polymorphisms". Evolution 14: 458-472.
Lewontin, R. C. (1966). "Is Nature Probable or Capricious?". Bio Science 16: 25-27.
Lewontin, R. C.; J. L. Hubby (1966). "A molecular approach to the study of genic heterozygosity in natural populations. II. Amount of variation and degree of heterozygosity in natural populations of Drosophila pseudoobscura.". Genetics 54: 595-609.
Lewontin, R. C. (1970). "The Units of Selection". Annual Reviews of Ecology and Systematics 1: 1-18.
"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 Einnaudi, (1977) vol. 1, 198-214.
"Adaptation," Scientific American, vol. 239, (1978) 212-228.
Gould, S.J., and Richard Lewontin (1979). "The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossion paradigm: a critique of the adaptationist programme". Proc R Soc Lond B 205: 581-598.
Lewontin, R. C. (1995). Human diversity, 2nd edition, 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 (with 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)"
_____________
Na contra-capa deste livro, publicado pela Relógio d' Água, Lisboa, em 1998 (com revisão científica de Bracinha Vieira e numa colecção coordenada por Nuno Nabais), transcreve-se a afirmação do autor, que traduz a mensagem do livro, segundo a qual "colocámos a ciência num pedestal, tratando-a como um corpo objectivo de conhecimento que transcende todas as outras formas de conhecer e trabalhar.
"A ciência é uma instituição social (...)".
Este conjunto de ensaios, muito fáceis de ler para o não especialista, resulta de um conjunto de conferências na rádio, mantendo esse estilo coloquial.
Recomendo!
_____
autor citado por Tim Ingold, na sua obra já clássica "The Perception of the Environment"
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