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Richard Levins, 1932-2016: The People’s Scientist

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Ecologist, biomathematician, philosopher of science, and Monthly Review author Richard Levins died January 19 at the age of 85. John Rock Professor of Population Sciences at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Levins wrote several articles over the years for Monthly Review magazine, and co-authored, with Richard C. Lewontin, Biology Under the Influence: Dialectical Essays on Ecology, Agriculture, and Health

One of his most popular Monthly Review articles was “How to Visit a Socialist Country,” MR vol. 61, no. 11

Here’s an eloquent remembrance, “The People’s Scientist,” just written by Pankaj Mehta for Jacobin magazine

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