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2 unusual facts about Elisabeth Lloyd


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Elisabeth Lloyd's book The Structure and Confirmation of Evolutionary Theory provides a basic philosophical introduction to the debate.

Elisabeth Lloyd (1988) The Structure and Confirmation of Evolutionary Theory, Greenwood Press (Reprinted Princeton University Press, 1994 ISBN 0-691-00046-8).


Richard Lewontin

He has worked with and had great influence on many philosophers of biology, including William C. Wimsatt, Elliott Sober, Philip Kitcher, Elisabeth Lloyd, Peter Godfrey-Smith, Sahotra Sarkar, and Robert Brandon, often inviting them to work in his lab.


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Richard Lewontin

He has been a major influence on philosophers of biology, notably William C. Wimsatt (who taught with Lewontin and Richard Levins at the University of Chicago), Robert Brandon and Elisabeth Lloyd (who studied with Lewontin as graduate students), Philip Kitcher, and Elliott Sober.