{"id":268137,"date":"2021-08-09T08:56:37","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T08:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=211100"},"modified":"2021-08-09T08:56:37","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T08:56:37","slug":"remembering-the-great-scientific-crusader-who-showed-that-no-biological-basis-for-race-exists-richard-lewontin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/08\/09\/remembering-the-great-scientific-crusader-who-showed-that-no-biological-basis-for-race-exists-richard-lewontin\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering the Great Scientific Crusader Who Showed That No Biological Basis for Race Exists: Richard Lewontin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On July 4, Richard Lewontin, the dialectical biologist, Marxist and activist, died at the age of 92, just three days after the death of his wife of more than 70 years, Mary Jane. He was one of the founders of modern biology who brought together three different disciplines\u2014statistics, molecular biology and evolutionary biology\u2014that mark the  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/08\/09\/remembering-the-great-scientific-crusader-who-showed-that-no-biological-basis-for-race-exists-richard-lewontin\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/08\/09\/remembering-the-great-scientific-crusader-who-showed-that-no-biological-basis-for-race-exists-richard-lewontin\/\">Remembering the Great Scientific Crusader Who Showed That No Biological Basis for Race Exists: Richard Lewontin<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/08\/09\/remembering-the-great-scientific-crusader-who-showed-that-no-biological-basis-for-race-exists-richard-lewontin\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 4, Richard Lewontin, the dialectical biologist, Marxist and activist, died at the age of 92, just three days after the death of his wife of more than 70 years, Mary Jane. He was one of the founders of modern biology who brought together three d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":256,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/256"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268137"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268325,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268137\/revisions\/268325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}