Dick Lewontin, 1929-2021 – Why Evolution Is True

Dick Lewontin, 1929-2021 – Why Evolution Is True: Although my Ph.D. advisor Richard Lewontin—known to everyone as "Dick" and to his students as "The Boss"—hadn't been well lately and wasn't receiving visitors, the news of his death yesterday at 92 was still a shock. He was without a doubt the most important figure in my career as an evolutionary geneticist, helping form me…