Biological Determinism

RICHARD LEWONTIN was born in New York and attended the public schools there. He was an undergraduate student in mathematical statistics and genetics at Columbia. He has taught at North Carolina State University, the University of Rochester, the University of Chicago, and at Harvard, where he is currently Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, Professor of Biology, and Professor of Population Science. He has spent his professional life studying genetic variation in natural populations of insects and human beings, from both an experimental and a theoretical point of view.