Richard Lewontin Quote

Parts and wholes evolve in consequence of their relationship, and the relationship itself evolves. These are the properties of things that we call dialectical: that one thing cannot exist without the other, that one acquires its properties from its relation to the other, that the properties of both evolve as a consequence of their interpenetration.


The Dialectical Biologist (1985), co-written with Richard Levins, Introduction, p. 3.


Parts and wholes evolve in consequence of their relationship, and the relationship itself evolves. These are the properties of things that we call...

Parts and wholes evolve in consequence of their relationship, and the relationship itself evolves. These are the properties of things that we call...

Parts and wholes evolve in consequence of their relationship, and the relationship itself evolves. These are the properties of things that we call...

Parts and wholes evolve in consequence of their relationship, and the relationship itself evolves. These are the properties of things that we call...