The following was originally published June 22, 2011 at
http://peter_taylor111.wordpress.com/2011/06/22/biology-as-politics-the-direct-and-indirect-effects-of-lewontin-and-levins/
Introduction to my essay review of Biology Under the Influence: Dialectical Essays on Ecology, Agriculture, and Health, by Richard Lewontin and Richard Levins, Monthly Review Press, 2007 In “A Program for Biology,” one of this collection's thirty-one essays, the Marxist biologists Richard Lewontin and Richard Levins (hereon: L&L) list recent “big mistakes” in scientific approaches [...]
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