Group Selection is a
1971The year 1971 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*The Destiny Waltz by Gerda Charles wins the UK's first Whitbread Novel of the Year Award.-New books:*Hiroshi Aramata - Teito Monogatari...
book edited by
George C. WilliamsProfessor George Christopher Williams is an American evolutionary biologist.Williams is a professor emeritus of biology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is best known for his vigorous critique of group selection. The work of Williams in this area, along with W. D...
, containing papers written by biologists arguing against the view of
group selectionIn evolutionary biology, group selection refers to the idea that alleles can become fixed or spread in a population because of the benefits they bestow on groups, regardless of the alleles' effect on the fitness of individuals within that group....
as a major force in
evolutionIn biology, evolution is change in the genetic material of a population of organisms from one generation to the next. Though changes produced in any one generation are normally small, differences accumulate with each generation and can, over time, cause substantial changes in the population, a...
. The group of biologists writing on a single unified (if somewhat broad) theme contrasts with Williams' earlier seminal 1966 book
Adaptation and Natural SelectionAdaptation and Natural Selection: A Critique of Some Current Evolutionary Thought is a 1966 book by the American evolutionary biologist George C. Williams...
, which Williams suspected such views to be his alone. In particular it contains a reprint, with an erratum, of W.D.
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Group Selection is a
1971The year 1971 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*The Destiny Waltz by Gerda Charles wins the UK's first Whitbread Novel of the Year Award.-New books:*Hiroshi Aramata - Teito Monogatari...
book edited by
George C. WilliamsProfessor George Christopher Williams is an American evolutionary biologist.Williams is a professor emeritus of biology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is best known for his vigorous critique of group selection. The work of Williams in this area, along with W. D...
, containing papers written by biologists arguing against the view of
group selectionIn evolutionary biology, group selection refers to the idea that alleles can become fixed or spread in a population because of the benefits they bestow on groups, regardless of the alleles' effect on the fitness of individuals within that group....
as a major force in
evolutionIn biology, evolution is change in the genetic material of a population of organisms from one generation to the next. Though changes produced in any one generation are normally small, differences accumulate with each generation and can, over time, cause substantial changes in the population, a...
. The group of biologists writing on a single unified (if somewhat broad) theme contrasts with Williams' earlier seminal 1966 book
Adaptation and Natural SelectionAdaptation and Natural Selection: A Critique of Some Current Evolutionary Thought is a 1966 book by the American evolutionary biologist George C. Williams...
, which Williams suspected such views to be his alone. In particular it contains a reprint, with an erratum, of W.D. Hamilton's classic 1964 paper on
inclusive fitnessIn evolutionary biology and evolutionary psychology, inclusive fitness refers to an organism's classical fitness plus the number of equivalents of its own offspring it can add to the population by supporting others...
,
The Genetical Evolution of Social Behavior plus a paper by
John Maynard SmithJohn Maynard Smith, F.R.S. was a British theoretical evolutionary biologist and geneticist. Originally an aeronautical engineer during the Second World War, he then took a second degree in genetics under the well-known biologist J.B.S. Haldane...
entitled "The Origin and Maintenance of Sex" (pp 163–175), containing ideas on
evolution of sexScientists currently have developed several competing hypotheses to explain the evolution of sexual reproduction. Many groups of organisms, notably the majority of animals and plants, reproduce sexually. The evolution of sex contains two related, yet distinct, themes: its origin and its maintenance...
later developed by Maynard Smith; see especially his 1978 book
The Evolution of Sex.