page_title: Richard Levins
hierarchical_section_title: Richard Levins
caption_attribution_description: English: Richard Levins - Richard 'Dick' Levins, PhD, during applause at his 5-23-2015 85th Birthday Symposium Tribute Dinner
context_page_description: Richard "Dick" Levins was an American ecologist, a population geneticist, biomathematician, mathematical ecologist, and philosopher of science. He had researched diversity in human populations. 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.
  Levins died in Cambridge, Massachusetts on January 19, 2016 from heart failure at the age of 85.
context_section_description: Richard "Dick" Levins (June 1, 1930 – January 19, 2016) was an American ecologist, a population geneticist, biomathematician, mathematical ecologist, and philosopher of science. He had researched diversity in human populations. 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.
  Levins died in Cambridge, Massachusetts on January 19, 2016 from heart failure at the age of 85.
caption: Levins in May 2015
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