The Triple Helix (Magill’s Literary Annual 2001)
At a glance:
- Author: Richard Lewontin
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Science, philosophy, and history of science
- Genres: Nonfiction, Science and technology
- Subjects: History, Science or scientists, Genetics, Social sciences
The Triple Helix contains three chapters that originally were lectures delivered by Richard Lewontin to the Lezioni Italiani in Milan. In them, Lewontin, the Alexander Agassiz Research Professor at Harvard University’s Museum of Comparative Zoology, admonishes researchers in the life sciences for ignoring important ideas and so overspecializing that their results, especially those concerning genes and inheritance, are misleading. He proposes that a revolution in the biological sciences is needed to redirect modern research. Apparently because these lectures were heavily...
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