Celebrating 50 years since Lewontin's apportionment of human diversity
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DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2020.0405
Abstract: ‘85% of human genetic variation resides within populations’—Richard Lewontin’s result and sound bite, tracing to his 1972 article ‘The apportionment of human diversity’ [1], have become indispensable to descriptions of worldwide human genetic variation. In… read more here.
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Diversity and its causes: Lewontin on racism, biological determinism and the adaptationist programme
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DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2020.0417
Abstract: Lewontin's 1972 paper (RC Lewontin, 1972 The apportionment of human diversity, in Evolutionary biology, vol. 6 (eds T Dobzhansky, MK Hecht, WC Steere), pp. 381–398) can be viewed as one foray in his battle against… read more here.
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