The Doctrine of DNA: Biology As Ideology (Penguin Science S.) - Softcover

Lewontin, Richard C.

 
9780140232196: The Doctrine of DNA: Biology As Ideology (Penguin Science S.)

Synopsis

This book, the latest in the continuing debate between the genetic reductionists (such as Richard Dawkins, John Maynard Smith and E.O. Wilson) and those who argue for a rather more complex relationship between genes and the environment (such as Stephen Jay Gould, Steven Rose and Niles Eldredge). Lewontin is a forceful writer and this is an effective statement of the case against the "selfish gene".

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About the Author

Professor R C Lewontin is a leading geneticist. A frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books, he also holds the Alexander Gassiz chair in zoology at Harvard University.

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