The Dialectical Biologist

Evolution in Changing Environments

Levins, R. (1968) · Princeton University Press eBooks · doi:10.1515/9780691209418 · Cited by 5,401

Ecology: The Experimental Analysis of Distribution and Abundance

Krebs, C. J. (1973) · Cited by 4,620

THE GENETIC BASIS OF EVOLUTIONARY CHANGE

Felsenstein, J., & Lewontin, R. C. (1975) · Evolution · doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.1975.tb00851.x · Cited by 3,894

Form and Function in Birds

Fedde, M. R. (1989) · Poultry Science · doi:10.3382/ps.0681599 · Cited by 847

The Social Function of Science.

Wootton, B., & Bernal, J. D. (1939) · The Economic Journal · doi:10.2307/2225099 · Cited by 672

The Theory of Diversity-Stability Relationships in Ecology

Goodman, D. (1975) · The Quarterly Review of Biology · doi:10.1086/408563 · Cited by 470

Evolution in Changing Environments.

Smith, J. M., & Levins, R. (1970) · Population Studies · doi:10.2307/2173276 · Cited by 308

Birds of eucalypt forest and woodlands: Ecology, conservation and management

(1987) · Biological Conservation · doi:10.1016/0006-3207(87)90069-3 · Cited by 13

The birds of the Creston Valley and southeastern British Columbia

Butler, R. W., Stushnoff, B. G., & McMakin, E. (1986) · Canadian Wildlife Service eBooks · Cited by 7

On non-equilibrium and nomadism : knowledge, diversity and global modernity in Drylands (and beyond…)

Sullivan, S., & Homewood, K. (2003) · BIROn (Birkbeck, University of London) · doi:10.82444/warw.33483982 · Cited by 18

Political undercurrents of modern ecology

Haila, Y. (1998) · Science as Culture · doi:10.1080/09505439809526522 · Cited by 18

Evolution, Complexity, and Life History Theory

Veit, W., Gascoigne, S. J. L., & Salguero‐Gómez, R. (2025) · Biological Theory · doi:10.1007/s13752-024-00487-z · Cited by 17

Critical sustainability science: advancing sustainability transformations

Longo, S. B., Isgren, E., & Carolan, M. (2025) · Sustainability Science · doi:10.1007/s11625-025-01667-x · Cited by 17

COVID-19: The need of an integrated and critical view

El-Hani, C. N., & Machado, V. (2020) · Ethnobiology and Conservation · doi:10.15451/ec2020-05-9.18-1-20 · Cited by 17

Forced removals embodied as tuberculosis

Richardson, E. T., Morrow, C. D., Ho, T., Fürst, N., Cohelia, R., Tram, K. H., Farmer, P. E., & Wood, R. (2016) · Social Science & Medicine · doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.05.015 · Cited by 17

Contextualizing Medical Norms: Georges Canguilhem’s Surnaturalism

Sholl, J. (2016) · History, philosophy and theory of the life sciences · doi:10.1007/978-3-319-29091-1_6 · Cited by 17

The Pulse of Freedom? Bhaskar's Dialectic and Marxism

Creaven, S. (2002) · Historical Materialism · doi:10.1163/156920602320318093 · Cited by 17

Embodied [by] Dance: Adolescent de/constructions of body, sex and gender in physical education

Blume, L. B. (2003) · Sex Education · doi:10.1080/14681810309035 · Cited by 17

Toward a socioethical approach to behavior change

Mah, M. W., & Meyers, G. (2006) · American Journal of Infection Control · doi:10.1016/j.ajic.2005.09.004 · Cited by 17

Coronary Heart Disease (CHD)\-\-One or Several Diseases? Changes in the Prevalence and Features of CHD

Azambuja, M. I. R., & Levins, R. (2007) · Perspectives in biology and medicine · doi:10.1353/pbm.2007.0013 · Cited by 17

Genetically engineered herbicide resistance, part two

Comstock, G. (1990) · Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics · doi:10.1007/bf02014610 · Cited by 17

Interneurons in the flight system of the cricketTeleogryllus oceanicus

Robertson, R. M. (1987) · Journal of Comparative Physiology A · doi:10.1007/bf00615077 · Cited by 17

The critique of intelligent design: Epicurus, Marx, Darwin, and Freud and the materialist defense of science

Clark, B., Foster, J. B., & York, R. (2007) · Theory and Society · doi:10.1007/s11186-007-9046-9 · Cited by 16

Diversity and its causes: Lewontin on racism, biological determinism and the adaptationist programme

Shen, H., & Feldman, M. W. (2022) · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · doi:10.1098/rstb.2020.0417 · Cited by 16

The Evolution of Alternative Control Strategies in a Traditional Crop: Economy and Policy as Drivers of Olive Fly Control

Nestel, D., Rempoulakis, P., Yanovski, L., Chueca, M. Á. M., & Papadopoulos, N. T. (2016) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-319-31800-4_4 · Cited by 16

Macrobenthic community establishment on artificial reefs with Macrocystis pyrifera over barren-ground and soft-bottom habitats

Campos, L., Ortiz, M., Rodríguez-Zaragoza, F. A., & Oses, R. (2020) · Global Ecology and Conservation · doi:10.1016/j.gecco.2020.e01184 · Cited by 16

Scaling up uncertain predictions to higher levels of organisation tends to underestimate change

Orr, J. A., Piggott, J. J., Jackson, A. L., & Arnoldi, J. (2021) · Methods in Ecology and Evolution · doi:10.1111/2041-210x.13621 · Cited by 16

From Darwinian Metaphysics towards Understanding the Evolution of Evolutionary Mechanisms

von Sydow, M. (2012) · GRO · doi:10.17875/gup2012-515 · Cited by 16

Adaptive chronic infection, structured stress, and medical magic bullets: do reductionist cures select for holistic diseases?

Wallace, R., & Wallace, R. G. (2004) · Biosystems · doi:10.1016/j.biosystems.2004.04.004 · Cited by 16

Expanding Immunology: defensive versus ecological perspectives

Tauber, A. I. (2008) · Perspectives in biology and medicine · doi:10.1353/pbm.0.0000 · Cited by 16

Open systems living in a closed biosphere: a new paradox for the Gaia debate

Barlow, C. C., & Volk, T. (1990) · Biosystems · doi:10.1016/0303-2647(90)90018-v · Cited by 16

Identity, ideology and inequality: Methodologies in medical anthropology, Guatemala 1950–1995

Barrett, B. P. (1997) · Social Science & Medicine · doi:10.1016/s0277-9536(96)00205-5 · Cited by 16

Neuroanthropology and the dialectical imperative

D, J. F. D. (2012) · Anthropological Theory · doi:10.1177/1463499612436459 · Cited by 16

Science and common sense: perspectives from philosophy and science education

Green, S. (2016) · Synthese · doi:10.1007/s11229-016-1276-9 · Cited by 16

A Critical Biocultural Perspective on Tourism and the Nutrition Transition in the Yucatan

Leatherman, T., Goodman, A. H., & Stillman, J. T. (2019) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-030-27001-8_6 · Cited by 16

Modern Epidemiologic Approaches to Interaction: Applications to the Study of Genetic Interactions

Schwartz, S. (2006) · Cited by 16

The Discourse of Environmental Information

Στάμου, Α. Γ., Lefkaditou, A., Schizas, D., & Stamou, G. P. (2009) · Science Communication · doi:10.1177/1075547009335347 · Cited by 16

A swamp and its subjects: conservation politics, surveillance and resistance in Trinidad, the West Indies

Sletto, B. (2004) · Geoforum · doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2004.03.010 · Cited by 16

Whitehead and science education

Birch, C. (1988) · Educational Philosophy and Theory · doi:10.1111/j.1469-5812.1988.tb00142.x · Cited by 16

The ecological transformation of Cuba

Levins, R. (1993) · Agriculture and Human Values · doi:10.1007/bf02217840 · Cited by 16

Ontogeny and Phylogeny; a Case of Metarecapitulation?

Oyama, S. (1992) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-94-015-8038-0_8 · Cited by 16

Clark Kent or Superman: Where Is the Phone Booth for Landscape Ecology?

Hobbs, R. J. (1999) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-1-4612-0529-6_2 · Cited by 16

Accomplishing sequencing the human genome

Bartlett, A. (2008) · ORCA Online Research @Cardiff (Cardiff University) · Cited by 16

Epidemiology's role in the creation of a humane world: Convergences and divergences among the schools

Breilh, J. (1995) · Social Science & Medicine · doi:10.1016/0277-9536(95)00278-f · Cited by 16

Where organisms meet the environment

Baedke, J., & Buklijaš, T. (2022) · Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A · doi:10.1016/j.shpsa.2022.09.008 · Cited by 16

Token physicalism and functional individuation

DiFrisco, J. (2017) · European Journal for Philosophy of Science · doi:10.1007/s13194-017-0188-y · Cited by 15

The Organism

Baedke, J. (2025) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781009495035 · Cited by 15

Community Review: A little regulatory pluralism with your counter-hegemonic advocacy? Blending analytical frames to construct joined-up food policy in Canada

MacRae, R. J., & Winfield, M. (2016) · Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l alimentation · doi:10.15353/cfs-rcea.v3i1.60 · Cited by 15

Beyond Nature

Maurizi, M. (2021) · BRILL eBooks · doi:10.1163/9789004466654 · Cited by 15

Immunity in Context: Science and Society in Dialogue

Tauber, A. I. (2016) · THEORIA An International Journal for Theory History and Foundations of Science · doi:10.1387/theoria.14560 · Cited by 15

Spatial variation and linear modeling of ecological data

Negrete‐Yankelevich, S., & Fox, G. A. (2015) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199672547.003.0011 · Cited by 15

Styles of Thought on the Continental Drift Debate

Pellegrini, P. (2019) · Journal for General Philosophy of Science · doi:10.1007/s10838-018-9439-7 · Cited by 15

Mixture models for overdispersed data

Rhodes, J. R. (2015) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199672547.003.0013 · Cited by 15

Validating niche-construction theory through path analysis

Brock, W. A., O’Brien, M. J., & Bentley, R. A. (2015) · Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences · doi:10.1007/s12520-015-0257-0 · Cited by 15

Phylogenetic Time and Symbol Creation: Where Do Zopeds Come From?

Lock, A. J. (2000) · Culture & Psychology · doi:10.1177/1354067x0062002 · Cited by 15

Dialectics, Complexity,and the Systemic Approach

Wan, P. Y.-Z. (2012) · Philosophy of the Social Sciences · doi:10.1177/0048393112441974 · Cited by 15

The Marxian Alternative: Historical‐Geographical Materialism and the Political Economy of Capitalism

Swyngedouw, E. A. (2017) · Wiley eBooks · doi:10.1002/9781405166430.ch4 · Cited by 15

Natural Selection in Pathogens

Levins, R. (1994) · Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.1994.tb19876.x · Cited by 15

Don't kill the ANOVA messenger for bearing bad interaction news

Detterman, D. K. (1990) · Behavioral and Brain Sciences · doi:10.1017/s0140525x00077906 · Cited by 15

Who believes estimating heritability as an end in itself?

McGuffin, P., & Katz, R. (1990) · Behavioral and Brain Sciences · doi:10.1017/s0140525x00078018 · Cited by 15

Color is as color does

Dannemiller, J. L. (1992) · Behavioral and Brain Sciences · doi:10.1017/s0140525x00067315 · Cited by 15

Darwinism in the Twentieth Century: Productive Encounters with Saltation, Acquired Characteristics, and Development

Depew, D. (2017) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-319-69123-7_4 · Cited by 14

Constructing “On Purpose”: How Niche Construction Affects Natural Selection

Deffner, D. (2023) · The MIT Press eBooks · doi:10.7551/mitpress/14642.003.0007 · Cited by 14

The Bretskyan hierarchy, multiscale allopatry, and geobiomes—on the nature of evolutionary things

Spiridonov, A., & Eldredge, N. (2024) · Paleobiology · doi:10.1017/pab.2023.37 · Cited by 14

Learning Dialectics to Grow Better Soils Knowledge, not Bigger Crops: A Materialist Dialectics and Relationality for Soil Science

Mauro, S. E. (2018) · Capitalism Nature Socialism · doi:10.1080/10455752.2018.1548025 · Cited by 14

Ecologising education beyond angels and villains

Affifi, R. (2022) · Environmental Education Research · doi:10.1080/13504622.2022.2108768 · Cited by 14

Agents and acacias: replies to Dennett, Sterelny, and Queller

Godfrey‐Smith, P. (2011) · Biology & Philosophy · doi:10.1007/s10539-011-9246-6 · Cited by 14

The history of ideas revisited

Greene, J. C. (1986) · Revue de Synthèse · doi:10.1007/bf03189040 · Cited by 14

Reinforcing the Ecosystem Services Perspective: The Temporal Component

Heydinger, J. (2016) · Ecosystems · doi:10.1007/s10021-016-9959-0 · Cited by 14

How Are Genes Related to Culture? An Introduction to the Field of Cultural Genomics

Causadías, J. M., & Korous, K. M. (2017) · Wiley eBooks · doi:10.1002/9781119181361.ch7 · Cited by 14

Moving past postcolonial hybrid spaces: How Buddhist monks make meaning of biology

Balgopal, M. M., Gerardo, N. M., Topden, J., & Gyatso, K. (2021) · Science Education · doi:10.1002/sce.21616 · Cited by 14

“Romantic”, “Classic” and “Baroque” Views of Nature: An Analysis of Pictures About the Environment in Greek Primary School Textbooks—Diachronic Considerations

Lemoni, R., Στάμου, Α. Γ., & Stamou, G. P. (2010) · Research in Science Education · doi:10.1007/s11165-010-9191-4 · Cited by 14

Genes do not Encode Information for Phenotypic Traits

Godfrey‐Smith, P. (2004) · ANU Open Research (Australian National University) · Cited by 14

From the Melanocyte to Melanoma to Tumor Biology

Clark, W. H. (1994) · Advances in cancer research · doi:10.1016/s0065-230x(08)60066-4 · Cited by 14

ON THE INTEGRATION OF COMMUNITY ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES AND CURRENT PROSPECTS

Holt, R. D. (2005) · Elsevier eBooks · doi:10.1016/b978-012088459-9/50014-5 · Cited by 14

Primates and Paradigms

Masters, J. C. (1993) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-1-4899-3745-2_3 · Cited by 14

Achilles and the tortoise: Some caveats to mathematical modeling in biology

Gilbert, S. F. (2018) · Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology · doi:10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2018.01.005 · Cited by 13

The Socionatural Engineering of Reductionist Metaphors: A Political Ecology of Synthetic Biology

Rossi, J. (2013) · Environment and Planning A Economy and Space · doi:10.1068/a45195 · Cited by 13

The Paradox of Stasis and the Nature of Explanations in Evolutionary Biology

Kaplan, J. M. (2009) · Philosophy of Science · doi:10.1086/605803 · Cited by 13

Dialectics and World Politics: The Story So Far …

Brincat, S. K. (2014) · Globalizations · doi:10.1080/14747731.2014.972064 · Cited by 13

Nature, Capital and Neighborhoods: “Dispossession without Accumulation”?

Kappeler, A., & Bigger, P. (2010) · Antipode · doi:10.1111/j.1467-8330.2010.00757.x · Cited by 13

Romantic Ecocriticism Lately

Nersessian, A. J. (2017) · Literature Compass · doi:10.1111/lic3.12433 · Cited by 13

Weathering the 'Long Wounded Year': livelihoods, nutrition, and changing political ecologies in the Mikea Forest Region, Madagascar

Huff, A. (2014) · Journal of Political Ecology · doi:10.2458/v21i1.21126 · Cited by 13

Ecological Marxism and dialectic

Kovel, J. (1995) · Capitalism Nature Socialism · doi:10.1080/10455759509358649 · Cited by 13

Situatedness and Problematic Boundaries: Conceptualizing Life's Complex Ecological Context

Taylor, P. J., & Haila, Y. (2001) · Biology & Philosophy · doi:10.1023/a:1011957913992 · Cited by 13

Insect Neurons: Synaptic Interactions, Circuits and the Control of Behavior

Robertson, R. M. (1987) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-1-4613-1955-9_14 · Cited by 13

Qualitative modelling for the development of a sustainable management strategy for the Peruvian scallop Argopecten purpuratus (Lamarck 1819)

Ortiz, M., Wolff, M., & Mendo, J. (2002) · Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems · doi:10.1002/aqc.497 · Cited by 13

Organizations, Naturalism, and Complexity

Khalil, E. L. (1995) · Review of Social Economy · doi:10.1080/00346769500000030 · Cited by 13

On the relations between behaviour, mechanism, and environment : explorations in artificial evolution.

Seth, A. K. (2000) · Cited by 13

The Immortal Science of ML: Machine Learning and the Theory-Free Ideal

Andrews, M. (2025) · Erkenntnis · doi:10.1007/s10670-025-01010-x · Cited by 12

The Monster ‘Within’: Capitalist Urbanization as Geometabolic Escalation

Brenner, N., & Ghosh, S. (2025) · Development and Change · doi:10.1111/dech.70015 · Cited by 12

Stances and Epistemology: Values, Pragmatics, and Rationality

Boucher, S. C. (2018) · Metaphilosophy · doi:10.1111/meta.12317 · Cited by 12

Mapping kinds in GIS and cartography

Winther, R. G. (2015) · PhilPapers (PhilPapers Foundation) · doi:10.4324/9781315619934-26 · Cited by 12

The Macroevolutionary Consequences of Niche Construction in Microbial Metabolism

Bajić, D., Rebolleda‐Gómez, M., Muñoz, M. M., & Sánchez, Á. (2021) · Frontiers in Microbiology · doi:10.3389/fmicb.2021.718082 · Cited by 12

Functional traits and metacommunity theory reveal that habitat filtering and competition maintain bird diversity in a human shared landscape

Eyster, H. N., Srivastava, D. S., Kreitzman, M., & Chan, K. M. A. (2022) · Ecography · doi:10.1111/ecog.06240 · Cited by 13

Reifications in Disease Ecology 1: Demystifying Land Use Change in Pathogen Emergence

Chaves, L. F., Runk, J. V., Bergmann, L. R., & Gottdenker, N. L. (2022) · Capitalism Nature Socialism · doi:10.1080/10455752.2022.2144397 · Cited by 12

Origins of the Classical Gene Concept, 1900–1950: Genetics, Mechanistic, Philosophy, and the Capitalization of Agriculture

Allen, G. E. (2014) · Perspectives in biology and medicine · doi:10.1353/pbm.2014.0003 · Cited by 12

Rethinking scientific authority: Behavior genetics and race controversies

Panofsky, A. L. (2017) · American Journal of Cultural Sociology · doi:10.1057/s41290-017-0032-z · Cited by 12

Space as method

Zhao, Y. (2017) · City · doi:10.1080/13604813.2017.1353342 · Cited by 12

A Veblenian Critique of Nelson and Winter’s Evolutionary Theory

Jo, T. (2021) · Journal of Economic Issues · doi:10.1080/00213624.2021.1994789 · Cited by 12

Early succession of micro‐periphyton communities in kelp bed and barren ground ecological systems

Uribe, R. A., Ortiz, M., Pacheco, A. S., & Araya, R. (2014) · Marine Ecology · doi:10.1111/maec.12241 · Cited by 12

On Maxwell's Demons and the Origin of Evolutionary Variations: An Internalist Perspective

Andrade, E. (2004) · Acta Biotheoretica · doi:10.1023/b:acbi.0000015910.83018.68 · Cited by 12

Complexity, Dynamism, and Agency: How Can Dialectical Biology Inform Geography?

Royle, C. (2017) · Antipode · doi:10.1111/anti.12332 · Cited by 12

Ecology, capitalism, and socialism

McLaughlin, A. (1990) · Socialism and Democracy · doi:10.1080/08854309208428060 · Cited by 12

Eugenics as an International Movement

Allen, G. E. (2015) · Elsevier eBooks · doi:10.1016/b978-0-08-097086-8.82001-2 · Cited by 12

Health and justice: the capability to be healthy.

Venkatapuram, S. (2009) · Apollo (University of Cambridge) · doi:10.17863/cam.15900 · Cited by 12

James Richard O’Connor’s Ecological Marxism

Saed (2019) · Capitalism Nature Socialism · doi:10.1080/10455752.2018.1495307 · Cited by 12

Robustness to Leg Loss in Opiliones: A Review and Framework Considerations for Future Research

Escalante, I., & O’Brien, S. L. (2024) · Integrative and Comparative Biology · doi:10.1093/icb/icae051 · Cited by 11

An Empiricist Conception of the Relation Between Metaphysics and Science

Boucher, S. C. (2018) · Philosophia · doi:10.1007/s11406-018-0040-4 · Cited by 11

Biology Under the Influence: Dialectical Essays on Ecology, Agriculture, and Health

Lewontin, R. C., & Levins, R. (2007) · Cited by 187

Presentación de la edición en castellano de La biología en cuestión. Ensayos dialécticos sobre ecología, agronomía y salud, de Richard Lewontin y Richard Levins

Benitez‐Vieyra, S., & Duarte, J. (2021) · Conicet

Dialectical Thinking and Science: The Case of Richard Lewontin, Dialectical Biologist

Biasetti, P. (2020) · De Gruyter eBooks · doi:10.1515/9783110604665-013

Agency and Organisation: The Dialectics of Nature and Life

SANDNES-HAUKEDAL, R. (2023) · Durham e-Theses (Durham University)

The Dialectical Biologist. Richard Levins and Richard Lewontin, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985

Barner-Barry, C. (1989) · Politics and the Life Sciences · doi:10.1017/s0730938400009461 · Cited by 1