Background
Levins, Richard was born on June 1, 1930 in New York City. Son of Ruben and Ruth (Sackman) Levins.
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Professor Levins, one of the leading explorers in the field of integrated population biology, considers the mutual interpenetration and joint evolution of organism and environment, occurring on several levels at once. Physiological and behavioral adaptations to short-term fluctuations of the environment condition the responses of populations to long-term changes and geographic gradients. These in turn affect the way species divide the environments among themselves in communities, and, therefore, the numbers of species which can coexist. Environment is treated here abstractly as pattern: patchiness, variability, range, etc. Populations are studied in their patterns: local heterogeneity, geographic variability, faunistic diversity, etc.
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Levins, Richard was born on June 1, 1930 in New York City. Son of Ruben and Ruth (Sackman) Levins.
AB, Cornell University, 1951. Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1965. Doctor of Philosophy in Environmental science (honorary), University Havana, 2000.
Farmer,, Puerto Rico, 1951-1956. Research associate University Rochester, New York, 1960-1961. Associate professor biology University Puerto Rico, 1961-1966.
Associate professor biology and mathematics biology University Chicago, 1967-1968, professor, 1969-1975. John Rock professor population science Harvard School Public Health, since 1975. Member science advisory council natural resources Puerto Rico Department Public Works, 1970-1972.
Member advisory board New York Marxist School.
( Professor Levins, one of the leading explorers in the f...)
( Professor Levins, one of the leading explorers in the f...)
(Analyzes the relations of humanity to nature from the dif...)
(Scientists act within a social context and from a philoso...)
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Coffee region organizer Puerto Rico Communist Party, 1952-1954. Member Partido Socialista Puertorriqueno. Board directors Concilo Hispano, 1986-1994, Oxfam American, 1988-1995, Grassroots International, 1996-1997.
Member American Academy Arts and Science, Cuban Academy of Sciences (correspondent member), New World Agriculture and Ecological Group, Science Vietnam, Northeast Organic Farmers Association, Cuban Botanical Association (correspondent member).
Married Rosario Morales, June 10, 1950. Children: Aurora, Ricardo, Alejandro.