# Richard Lewontin (@richard-lewontin)

Richard Lewontin was a population geneticist and evolutionary theorist. Lewontin helped introduce molecular data and quantitative methods to population genetics, showing extensive variation within populations.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from Richard Lewontin's public record._

## Topics

- [Genes, Organisms and Environments](/@richard-lewontin/genes-organisms-and-environments.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Genetic Variation](/@richard-lewontin/genetic-variation.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Race and Human Diversity](/@richard-lewontin/race-and-human-diversity.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://www.oeb.harvard.edu/people/richard-lewontin
- blog: https://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/lewontin-richard.pdf
- blog: https://www.amphilsoc.org/collections/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.L59-ead.xml

## Ask this twin

Reads need no token:

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "richard-lewontin", "question": "…"}`.