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Adaptation and Natural Selection: A Critique of Some Current Evolutionary Thought is a 1966 book by the American
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 evolutionary biologist George C. Williams
George C. Williams

Professor George Christopher Williams is an United States evolutionary biologist.Williams is a professor of biology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook....
. Williams, in what is now considered a classic
Classic book

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 by evolutionary biologists, outlines a gene-centric view of evolution, disputes notions of evolutionary progress, and criticizes contemporary models of group selection, including the theories of Alfred Emerson, A.






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Adaptation and Natural Selection: A Critique of Some Current Evolutionary Thought is a 1966 book by the American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 evolutionary biologist George C. Williams
George C. Williams

Professor George Christopher Williams is an United States evolutionary biologist.Williams is a professor of biology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook....
. Williams, in what is now considered a classic
Classic book

In the traditional sense, a Classic Book is one written in ancient Greek or latin . The word Classic may, however, also be applied to literature and other art that is widely considered a model of its form....
 by evolutionary biologists, outlines a gene-centric view of evolution, disputes notions of evolutionary progress, and criticizes contemporary models of group selection, including the theories of Alfred Emerson, A. H. Sturtevant, and to a smaller extent, the work of V. C. Wynne-Edwards. The book takes its title from a lecture by George Gaylord Simpson
George Gaylord Simpson

'George Gaylord Simpson' was an United States paleontologist. He was an expert on extinct mammals and their intercontinental migrations. Simpson was the most influential paleontologist of the twentieth century and a major participant in the modern evolutionary synthesis, contributing Tempo and Mode in Evolution and Principles of Classi...
 in January 1947 at the University of Princeton. Aspects of Williams' book were popularised by Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins

Clinton Richard Dawkins, Royal Society#Fellowship, Royal Society of Literature is a United Kingdom ethology, evolutionary biology and popular science author....
' in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene
The Selfish Gene

The Selfish Gene is a book on evolution by Richard Dawkins, published in 1976 in literature. It builds upon the principal theory of George C....
.

Contents

  • Preface
  1. Introduction 3
  2. Natural Selection, Adaptation, and Progress 20
  3. Natural Selection, Ecology and Morphogenesis 56
  4. Group Selection 92
  5. Adaptations of the Genetic System 125
  6. Reproductive Physiology and Behavior 158
  7. Social Adaptations 193
  8. Other Supposedly Group-Related Adaptations 221
  9. The Scientific Study of Adaptation 251
  • Literature Cited 275
  • Index 291


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