William Provine
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William Provine is a historian of science and holds a B.S.(1962), M.A.(1965), and Ph.D (1970) from the University of Chicago. Provine is currently the Charles A. Alexander Professor of Biological Sciences at Cornell University.
His research interests include a history of the theories of neutral molecular evolution; a history of geneticists' attitudes toward human race differences and race crossing; implications of modern biology for free will, moral responsibility and the foundations of ethics; and a history of ideas about speciation from 1963 to the present.
Provine is an atheist and staunch opponent of intelligent design. He is well known for engaging in debates with theistic philosophers and scientists about the existence of God and the viability of intelligent design as a theory to explain the mechanism of evolution. Provine also rejects the existence of free will.
Bibliography
- Origins of Theoretical Population Genetics (1971) ISBN 0226684652
- The Evolutionary Synthesis: Perspectives on the Unification of Biology, Ed. (1980) ISBN 0674272250
- Sewall Wright and Evolutionary Biology (1989) ISBN 0226684733
