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Richard C. Lewontin

Richard Lewontin
Born Richard Charles Lewontin
(1929-03-29) 29 March 1929 (age 88)
New York City, New York, U.S.
Residence Brattleboro, Vermont
Nationality American
Citizenship USA
Alma mater

Harvard University

Columbia University
Known for Evolutionary biology
Population genetics
Awards Sewall Wright Award (1994), Crafoord Prize (2015), Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal (2017)
Scientific career
Fields Genetics
Evolutionary biology
Population genetics
Institutions Harvard University
North Carolina State University
University of Rochester
University of Chicago
Columbia University
Thesis The Effects of Population Density and Composition on Viability in Drosophila melanogaster (1955)
Doctoral advisor Theodosius Dobzhansky
Doctoral students Joseph Felsenstein
Jerry Coyne
Martin Kreitman

Harvard University

Richard Charles "Dick" Lewontin (born March 29, 1929) is an American evolutionary biologist, geneticist, academic and social commentator. A leader in developing the mathematical basis of population genetics and evolutionary theory, he pioneered the application of techniques from molecular biology, such as gel electrophoresis, to questions of genetic variation and evolution.

In a pair of seminal 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" into evolutionary theory. From 1973 to 1998, he held an endowed chair in zoology and biology at Harvard University, and since 2003 has been a research professor there.

Lewontin opposes genetic determinism.

Lewontin was born in New York City to parents descended from late 19th-century Eastern European Jewish immigrants. He attended Forest Hills High School and the École Libre des Hautes Études in New York. In 1951 he graduated from Harvard College (BS, biology). In 1952, Lewontin received a master's degree in mathematical statistics, followed by a doctorate in zoology in 1954, both from Columbia University, where he was a student of Theodosius Dobzhansky.


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