Richard Levins
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. · United States · On the map · Academics · Lived 1930 to 2016 · aged 85
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.
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He was best known for his work on evolution and complexity in changing environments and on metapopulations.
