"This is the second of two volumes published in honor of Richard Lewontin.... In this second volume of essays, we honor the philosophical, historical, and political dimensions of his work."--Introduction

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Natural history and formalism in evolutionary genetics / R.C. Lewontin -- Interview of R.C. Lewontin / R.C. Lewontin, Diane Paul, John Beatty, Costas B. Krimbas -- Hannah Arendt and Karl Popper: Darwinism, historical determinism, and totalitarianism / John Beatty -- The genetics of experimental populations: L'Héritier and Teissier's population cages / Jean Gayon, Michel Veuille -- Did eugenics rest on an elementary mistake? / Diane B. Paul, Hamish G. Spencer -- Can the norm of reaction save the gene concept? / Raphael Falk -- "The apportionment of human diversity" 25 years later / Maryellen Ruvolo, Mark Seielstad -- The Indian caste system, human diversity, and genetic determinism / Rama S. Singh -- Selfish genes or developmental systems? / Russell D. Gray -- The evolutionary definition of selective agency, validation of the theory of hierarchical selection, and fallacy of the selfish gene / Stephen Jay Gould -- Reductionism in genetics and the human genome project / Sahotra Sarkar -- Organism, environment, and dialectics / Peter Godfrey-Smith -- Units and levels of selection: an anatomy of the units of selection debates / Elisabeth A. Lloyd -- In defense of neo-Darwinism: Popper's "Darwinism as a metaphysical programme" revisited / Costas B. Krimbas -- The two faces of fitness / Elliott Sober -- Evolvability: adaptation and modularity / Jeffrey C. Schank, William C. Wimsatt -- Organism and environment revisited / Robert N. Brandon -- An "irreducible" component of cognition / Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini -- From natural selection to natural construction to disciplining unruly complexity: the challenge of integrating ecological dynamics into evolutionary theory / Peter J. Taylor

Battling the undead: how (and how not) to resist genetic determinism / Philip Kitcher -- The poverty of reductionism / Steven Rose -- Behavior genetics: Galen's prophecy or Malpighi's legacy? / Evan Balaban -- Identity politics and biology / Ruth Hubbard -- The agroecosystem: the modern vision in crisis, the alternative evolving / John Vandermeer -- Political economy of agricultural genetics / Jean-Pierre Berlan -- The butterfly ex machina / Richard Levins -- Evoking transmutational dread: military and civilian uses of nuclear and genetic alchemies / Robert H. Haynes -- What causes cancer? a political history of recent debates / Robert N. Proctor

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