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Richard Lewontin and The Argument From Ethos
Richard Lewontin and The Argument From Ethos
1-2018
Recommended Citation
Depew, David J. "Richard Lewontin and the Argument from Ethos." Poroi 13, Iss. 2 (2018): Article 4.
https://doi.org/10.13008/2151-2957.1273
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This is so because two alleles in three possible configurations
follows the quadratic equation: aa + 2ab + bb. This is called the
Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium Law, after two mathematicians who
independently derived it in 1908.
he respected but who held that only the social leveling of communist
societies, by making the environment uniform, will reveal the true
effects of genes (Beatty, 1989, 1994; Jackson and Depew, 2017, 121-
123).