# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-levins
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:09:09.426Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-levins"
name: "Richard Levins"
slug: "richard-levins"
description: "Richard Levins was a Marxist biologist, population geneticist, biomathematician, mathematical ecologist, and philosopher of science who researched diversity in human populations. Until his death, he was a university professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a long-time political activist. He was best known for his work on evolution and complexity in changing environments and on metapopulations."
tagline: "Mathematical ecologist, university professor at Harvard School of Public Health, and political activist, who is best known for his work on evolution in changing environments and on metapopulations."
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birthDate: "1930-06-01"
deathDate: "2016-01-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump