Richard Levins

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Richard Levins is affiliated with the following schools: University of Minnesota, University of Florida, University of Chicago, University of Puerto Rico, Cornell University, Columbia University, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Harvard University

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PhD Biology Columbia University

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According to Wikipedia, Richard Levins was a Marxist biologist, a population geneticist, biomathematician, mathematical ecologist, and philosopher of science who researched diversity in human populations. Until his death, Levins 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.

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Richard Levins's Published Works

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Published Works

Evolution in Changing Environments (1968) (3907)
The Limiting Similarity, Convergence, and Divergence of Coexisting Species (1967) (3829)
Some Demographic and Genetic Consequences of Environmental Heterogeneity for Biological Control (1969) (3204)
Evolution in Changing Environments: Some Theoretical Explorations. (MPB-2) (1968) (2425)
The strategy of model building in population biology (1966) (1887)
The Dialectical Biologist (1987) (1119)
COMPETITION, HABITAT SELECTION, AND CHARACTER DISPLACEMENT IN A PATCHY ENVIRONMENT. (1964) (858)
Regional Coexistence of Species and Competition between Rare Species. (1971) (722)
The precautionary principle in environmental science. (2001) (612)
Coexistence in a Variable Environment (1979) (439)
The Island Syndrome in Rodent Populations (1994) (421)
Theory of Fitness in a Heterogeneous Environment. I. The Fitness Set and Adaptive Function (1962) (397)
DISCUSSION PAPER: THE QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS OF PARTIALLY SPECIFIED SYSTEMS (1974) (373)
Thermal Acclimation and Heat Resistance in Drosophila Species (1969) (355)
Impact of deforestation and agricultural development on anopheline ecology and malaria epidemiology. (2007) (284)
An Hypothesis to Explain the Incidence of Monophagy (1969) (261)
Theory of Fitness in a Heterogeneous Environment. II. Developmental Flexibility and Niche Selection (1963) (242)
Qualitative Modeling of Complex Systems: An Introduction to Loop Analysis and Time Averaging (1986) (215)
The effect of random variations of different types on population growth. (1969) (167)
Organism and environment (1997) (155)
The precautionary principle: protecting public health, the environment and the future of our children (2004) (152)
Ecosystem Health: The Concept, the ISEH, and the Important Tasks Ahead (1999) (150)
THEORY OF FITNESS IN A HETEROGENEOUS ENVIRONMENT. 3. THE RESPONSE TO SELECTION. (1964) (150)
A Response to Orzack and Sober: Formal Analysis and the Fluidity of Science (1993) (134)
Biology Under the Influence: Dialectical Essays on Ecology, Agriculture, and Health (2007) (126)
On the difference equation xn+1=α+βxn−1e−xn (2001) (120)
Trophic Structure Stability and Faunal Change during Recolonization (1972) (111)
The Maintenance of Genetic Polymorphism in a Spatially Heterogeneous Environment: Variations on a Theme by Howard Levene (1966) (109)
The Emergence of New Diseases (1994) (106)
Toward an Ecosocial View of Health (1999) (98)
Humanity and Nature: Ecology, Science and Society (1992) (91)
Dialectics and reductionism in ecology (2004) (90)
Ecological Theory and Pest Management (1980) (87)
Disease in Evolution: Global Changes and Emergence of Infectious Diseases. Proceedings of a conference. Woods Hole, Massachusetts, November 7-10, 1993. (1994) (86)
Biogeography of the Puerto Rican Bank: Species-Turnover on a Small Cay, Cayo Ahogado (1973) (75)
The dynamics of aquatic systems. 2. The effects of nutrient enrichment on model plankton communities1,2 (1977) (71)
Dormancy as an adaptive strategy. (1969) (71)
Theory of Fitness in a Heterogeneous Environment. V. Optimal Genetic Systems. (1965) (70)
Impact of education on knowledge, agricultural practices, and community actions for mosquito control and mosquito-borne disease prevention in rice ecosystems in Sri Lanka. (2006) (68)
Variability and vulnerability at the ecological level: implications for understanding the social determinants of health. (2002) (63)
Biogeography of the Puerto Rican Bank: Flotsam Transport of Terrestrial Animals (1972) (61)
Identifying keystone trophic groups in benthic ecosystems: Implications for fisheries management (2013) (56)
The internal and external in explanatory theories (1998) (56)
The Problem of Lysenkoism (1976) (54)
Strategies of abstraction (2007) (52)
Ecology of vector mosquitoes in Sri Lanka--suggestions for future mosquito control in rice ecosystems. (2007) (48)
Global behaviour of an SIR epidemic model with time delay (2007) (48)
Qualitative Modeling of Complex Systems (2014) (48)
Biogeography of the Puerto Rican Bank (1981) (44)
THE THEORY OF FITNESS IN A HETEROGENEOUS ENVIRONMENT. IV. THE ADAPTIVE SIGNIFICANCE OF GENE FLOW (1964) (43)
Why Programs Fail (2010) (39)
Community-based rice ecosystem management for suppressing vector anophelines in Sri Lanka. (2006) (37)
Anthropometric variability in the USA: 1971–2002 (2005) (36)
Dialectics and Systems Theory (2008) (35)
Self-feedbacks determine the sustainability of human interventions in eco-social complex systems: Impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem health (2017) (34)
Re-stocking practices and illegal fishing in northern Chile (SE Pacific coast): a study case (2011) (33)
How Cuba is going ecological (2005) (33)
Global Stability in Some Population Models (2000) (32)
Theory of fitness in a heterogeneous environment. VI. The adaptive significance of mutation. (1967) (32)
On the Characterization of Density and Resource Availability (1989) (32)
Effects of density dependence, feedback and environmental sensitivity on correlations among predators, prey and plant resources : models and practical implications (1996) (31)
Qualitative modeling in ecology: loop analysis, signed digraphs, and time averaging (1991) (30)
Genetics and ecology. (1970) (29)
Schmalhausen's law (2000) (29)
Life expectancy change in perturbed communities: derivation and qualitative analysis. (2005) (28)
Biogeography of the Puerto Rican Bank: Introduction of Species onto Palominitos Island (1973) (26)
The Origins of Inversion Polymorphisms (1968) (24)
Fundamental and applied research in agriculture. (1973) (22)
Ecological Engineering: Theory and Technology (1968) (19)
The agroecosystem embedded in a complex ecological community. (1990) (19)
Adult male height in an American colony: Puerto Rico and the USA mainland compared, 1886-1955. (2007) (19)
Holism and reductionism in ecology (1994) (18)
An expert diagnostic aid for reproductive problems in dairy cattle (1987) (18)
Asymmetric Competition Among Distant Taxa (1979) (18)
The role of seasonality in the dynamics of deer tick populations (2005) (18)
Effectiveness of a Leafminer Control Program for Florida Tomato Production (1975) (17)
The struggle for ecological agriculture in Cuba (1990) (17)
Is capitalism a disease? The crisis in U.S. public health. (2000) (17)
Coronary Heart Disease (CHD)\-\-One or Several Diseases? Changes in the Prevalence and Features of CHD (2007) (17)
Ten Propositions on Science and Antiscience (1996) (16)
Analysis of a nonlinear system for community intervention inmosquito control (2006) (15)
The biological and the social (1997) (15)
On the variance of eigenvalues of the community matrix : Derivation and appraisal (2000) (15)
The ecological transformation of Cuba (1993) (15)
Let the Numbers Speak (2000) (15)
Stephen Jay Gould—What Does It Mean To Be a Radical? (2002) (14)
Perspectives in Ecological Theory and Integrated Pest Management: From simple IPM to the management of agroecosystems (2007) (14)
Toward an integrated epidemiology. (1995) (14)
Price Specification in Milk Supply Response Analysis (1982) (13)
Collective Bargaining By Farmers: Time For a Fresh Look? (2002) (13)
Willard Cochrane and the American Family Farm (2000) (13)
Application of loop analysis for evaluation of malaria control interventions (2014) (13)
Natural Selection in Pathogens (1994) (13)
Social and land use composition determinants of health: variability in health indicators. (2013) (12)
Fitness and Optimization (1970) (12)
One Foot in, One Foot out (2008) (12)
Ethnic density and mortality: aboriginal population health in Taiwan (2016) (12)
Oscillation and stability in a delay model of a perennial grass (1995) (11)
Qualitative analysis of the all-cause black-white mortality crossover (2002) (11)
Science and Progress: Seven Developmentalist Myths in Agriculture (1986) (11)
MATHEMATICAL MODELS IN CROP PROTECTION (2007) (11)
Beyond profitability: Using economic indicators to measure farm sustainability (2001) (10)
How different are natural and social science (1998) (10)
Manure Application Planner (MAP): Software for Environmental and Economical Nutrient Planning (1997) (10)
Hantavirus disease emerging (1993) (10)
VARIATIONS ON A THEME BY HOWARD LEVENE (1966) (10)
The inflammation paradigm: Towards a consensus to explain coronary heart disease mortality in the 20th century (2008) (9)
Environmental Change, Climate and Health: Surprise, nonlinearity and complex behaviour (2002) (9)
Whose Scientific Method? Scientific Methods for a Complex World (2003) (9)
Temperature Effects on the Basic Reproductive Number (R0) Of West Nile Virus, Based On Ecological Parameters: Endemic Vs. New Emergence Regions (2015) (8)
The Evolution of Population Biology: Toward a population biology, still (2004) (8)
Blood pressure and hypertension in an American colony (Puerto Rico) and on the USA mainland compared, 1886-1930. (2007) (8)
The return of old diseases and the appearance of new ones (1996) (7)
LOCAL ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF CONSERVATION RESERVE PROGRAM ENROLLMENTS: A SUB-COUNTY ANALYSIS (1998) (7)
Rail/Truck Competition for Grain Traffic in Minnesota: Implications for Rate Making (1982) (7)
Oscillation and stability in a simple genotype selection model (1994) (7)
AN ESSAY ON FARM INCOME (2001) (6)
Toward the Renewal of Science (1990) (6)
A New Generation of Power (2000) (6)
The end of natural history (1996) (6)
Decentralized Control of Construction Behavior in Paper Wasps: An Overview of the Stigmergy Approach (1999) (5)
A Program for Biology (2006) (5)
Disease, Population and Virulence: Thoughts about Measles Mortality (1994) (4)
AN INTRODUCTION TO MATHEMATICAL ECOLOGY (1970) (4)
The Precautionary Principle in Environmental Science. (Commentaries) (2001) (4)
The Whimsical Science (1992) (4)
Cuba's Biological Weapons (2002) (4)
ON FARMERS WHO SOLVE EQUATIONS (1988) (4)
Community-based rice ecosystem management for suppressing vector anophelines in Sri Lanka (2005) (4)
Rethinking The Causes Of Disease (1995) (3)
Commodity programs and sustainable cash grain farming. (1990) (3)
Progressive cuba-bashing (2005) (3)
A Science of Our Own: Marxism and Nature (1986) (3)
Extension programming for teaching manure management to farmers (1996) (3)
Green Programs: A Corn Belt example of one way to reduce nitrogen use (1995) (3)
Agricultural Planning Expert: A Model of Farm Enterprise Selection (1990) (3)
Genetics and hunger. (1974) (3)
Implications of Microcomputer Technology for Agricultural Economics Programs (1983) (2)
An analysis of the national coal economy and a marginal producing region, 1976-1990 (1976) (2)
Statistical Patterns of Non-Equilibrium Systems1 (1983) (2)
Eulogy beside an Empty Grave: Reflections on the Future of Socialism (1990) (2)
Distribution Cost Reduction as an Incentive for Coal Conversion (1980) (2)
THE FOOD SYSTEM: A HOLISTIC POLICY APPROACH (2000) (2)
An Interview with Willard Cochrane (1996) (2)
Short run aspects of a genetic control program for Heliothis virescens (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) (1983) (2)
Basic Elements in a Conceptual Framework for New and Resurgent Disease: Introduction–Conceptual Framework Section a (1994) (2)
TAXATION AS A MEANS OF REDUCING NITROGEN FERTILIZER USE IN MINNESOTA CORN PRODUCTION (1992) (2)
A Comparison of Traditional Worksheet and Linear Programming Methods for Teaching Manure Application Planning. (1994) (2)
A View from the Trough (1996) (2)
The Road to Wholeness in Medicine and Public Health (2014) (2)
The Challenge of New Diseases (1994) (2)
Infection and Atherosclerosis: Is There an Association? (2006) (2)
Managing Populations with Unimodal Dynamics (2013) (2)
Models for regional heartwater epidemiology in a variable environment. (2000) (2)
Continuing Sources of Marxism: Looking for the Movement as a Whole (2011) (1)
Application of loop analysis for evaluation of malaria control interventions (2014) (1)
Soybean Trader: A Microcomputer Simulation of International Agricultural Trade (1988) (1)
Rail And Truck Rates Under Public Regulation: Corn And Soybean Transportation In Minnesota, 1970-1979 (1981) (1)
Why Don't We Have Sustainable Agriculture Now? (2009) (1)
Agricultural Computer Programming: A Practical Guide (1984) (1)
The dynamics of arthropod predator-prey systems : Michall P. Hassell, Monographs in Population Biology 13, Princeton U.P. 1978, 237 pp., Author index, index to genera cited, subject index, cloth $16.00, paper $6.95. (1979) (1)
The Competitive Position of Major U.S. Potato Producing Regions (1974) (1)
Chance and necessity (1997) (1)
Animals have a complex nature (1990) (1)
Reducing field losses of nitrogen: Is erosion control enough? (1990) (1)
A Software Package for Teaching Farm Planning (1989) (1)
Tenure in Agricultural Economics: A Five-Year Review (1991) (1)
A New Economy of Knowledge (2016) (1)
Living the Eleventh Thesis (2016) (1)
REDUCING NITROGEN APPLICATIONS TO MANURED CORN: AN OPPORTUNITY TO SAVE MONEY AND PROTECT THE ENVIRONMENT (1990) (1)
Swift County Farm Business Retention and Enhancement Program: Summary Report (1999) (1)
Eliminating Off-Farm Nitrogen: A Case Study (1992) (1)
Erratum: ‘Global behaviour of an SIR epidemic model with time delay’ (2011) (1)
Population Genetics: The Nature and Causes of Genetic Variability in Populations (1957) (1)
Review of The Social Conquest of Earth by Edward O. Wilson (2013) (1)
Does anything new ever happen (1998) (1)
"Religion and the Left": A Commentary; Do White Workers Benefit From Racism? (1984) (0)
Muhammad Saleem Kamdar. Development of Capitalism in Agriculture: An Essay on the Nature of Transformation (Change) of the 19th Century Agrarian Structure of Sindh Province in Pakistan. Stuart, Florida. 1996. 146pp.Paperback. price not given. (1996) (0)
Codynamics of Four Variables Involved in Dengue Transmission and Its Control by Community Intervention: A System of Four Difference Equations (2014) (0)
Robustness and Reality: How Science Justifies Ontological Commitments (2015) (0)
Life Expectancy Change in Perturbed Communities: Derivation and Qualitative Analysis (2006) (0)
7. Time Averaging (1985) (0)
4. Qualitative Predictions (1985) (0)
A Foray Into A Strange World: But does the exercise answer the central question? (2002) (0)
Are Water Quality Regulations Giving Manure a Bad Name (1998) (0)
267: Towards a Darwinian Epidemiology of Variability (2005) (0)
Puerto Rico: Climates for investments∗ (1983) (0)
Forming agricultural bargaining units for a sustainable and equitable agriculture (2006) (0)
TRANSPORTATION COSTS OF FERTILIZER USED IN MINNESOTA (1979) (0)
Minnesota Agricultural Economist 692 (1995) (0)
Shiva, Vandana. Stolen Harvest. Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2000, 150 pp., $40.00 (2002) (0)
The Way Ecology Works (1992) (0)
Book Review: Food and the Mid-Level Farm: Renewing an Agricultureof the Middle Edited by Thomas A. Lyson, G.W.Stevenson, and Rick Welsh (2009) (0)
Surprises, errors and doubts (2004) (0)
THE RECTANGULARITY LAW OF TRANSFORMERS (2003) (0)
Review A Community For Communities Ecology and Evolution of Communities (2015) (0)
Aspects of theoretical ecology (1966) (0)
Review of The Farm as Natural Habitat: Reconnecting Food Systems with Ecosystems Edited by Dana L. Jackson and Laura L. Jackson (2005) (0)
Our biology is social. A talk with Richard Levins. Interview by Bob Huff. (2003) (0)
T C O L L E C T I V E B a R G a I N I N G Fresh Look? (2002) (0)
Chapter 7 a Graphics Toolkit (0)
Vivir la tesis 11 (2008) (0)
Living the 11th Thesis (2008) (0)
New Disease Workshop: Dedication to Uwe Brinkmann. (1994) (0)
The politics of averages (2000) (0)
On Sugar, Capitalism, and Socialism (2006) (0)
5. From Concept to Model (1985) (0)
A boycott bandwagon (1978) (0)
TRANSPORTATION REQUIREMENTS FOR MINNESOTA CORN EXPORTS (1980) (0)
Emerging Pathogens: The Archaeology, Ecology, and Evolution of Infectious Disease.Edited byCharles L Greenblattand, Mark Spigelman.Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. $130.00 (hardcover); $59.50 (paper). xiv + 250 p; ill.; index. ISBN: 0–19–850900–6 (hc); 0–19–850901–4 (pb). 2003. (2004) (0)
Dialectics-A Worthwhile Alternative@@@The Dialectical Biologist. (1987) (0)
IS SCIENCE FAILING SOCIETY (1996) (0)
Notes on Contributors (1986) (0)
2. Loop Models: Definition of Terms and Calculation of Model Properties (1985) (0)
MATHEMATICAL MODELS OF PUBLIC HEALTH POLICY (2011) (0)
Chrysanthemum Production Planning Under Time-To-Harvest Uncertainty (1975) (0)
Rearming the revolution: The tasks of theory for hard times (1998) (0)
Round table on the future of the left (1999) (0)
Richard Levins and Dialectical Thinking* (2016) (0)
1. Qualitative Models (1985) (0)
Dynamics of the Scale and Its Natural Enemies in a Citrus Grove at Ceiba, Cuba (2013) (0)
Appendix: Some Mathematical Operations and Concepts (1985) (0)
3. Loop Models: Predicting Change (1985) (0)
Minnesota Agricultural Economist no. 676 (1994) (0)
Modeling a genetic control program for the tobacco budworm with SLAM (1981) (0)
Corporate Concentration Limits Growth in Sustainable Agriculture (2013) (0)
Scientific Method for Today’s Market (2014) (0)
Reinventing the Cuban Sugar Agroindustry (2008) (0)
6. Dynamical Systems and Loop Analysis (1985) (0)
Economic impact of EPA SO/sub 2/ standards on the US coal industry (1977) (0)
How to Visit a Socialist Country (2010) (0)
Life on other worlds (1998) (0)
Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (2009) (0)
Western Coal Transportation and Transshipping Costs for Minnesota (1979) (0)
Scientific Method for Today’s Market (2015) (0)
Are we programmed (1999) (0)
Agricultural Supply Response and Industry Structure (1988) (0)
SCIENTIFIC DEVELOPMENT OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY AFTER A SOCIALIST REVOLUTION (2010) (0)

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