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Richard C Lewontin
Researcher at Harvard University
Publications - 280
Citations - 46090
Richard C Lewontin is an academic researcher from Harvard University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Gene. The author has an hindex of 69, co-authored 280 publications receiving 44614 citations. Previous affiliations of Richard C Lewontin include North Carolina State University & University of Sydney.
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The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm: a critique of the adaptationist programme
TL;DR: The adaptationist programme is faulted for its failure to distinguish current utility from reasons for origin, and Darwin’s own pluralistic approach to identifying the agents of evolutionary change is supported.
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The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm: a critique of the adaptationist programme
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors criticise the adaptationist program for its inability to distinguish current utility from reasons for origin (male tyrannosaurs may have used their diminutive front legs to titillate female partners, but this will not explain why they got so small).
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The Apportionment of Human Diversity
TL;DR: Lewontin this article pointed out that even in the present era of Darwinism there is considerable diversity of opinion about the amount or importance of intragroup variation as opposed to the variation between races and species.
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The Interaction of Selection and Linkage. I. General Considerations; Heterotic Models.
TL;DR: The results of these investigations were sufficient to show that even for relatively simple cases (two loci, simple symmetrical selective values) linkage might have profound effects on the course of natural selection and, pari passu, natural selection may have major effect on the distribution of coupling and repulsion linkage in a population.