Adaptation and Natural Selection
- Adaptation and Natural Selection
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name = Adaptation and Natural Selection: A Critique of Some Current Evolutionary Thought
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author = George C. Williams
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release_date = 1966
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isbn = ISBN 0-691-02615-7
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"Adaptation and Natural Selection: A Critique of Some Current Evolutionary Thought" is a 1966 book by the American evolutionary biologist George C. Williams. Williams, in what is now considered a classic by evolutionary biologists, outlines a gene-centric view of evolution,Fact|date=April 2007 disputes notions of evolutionary progress, and criticized 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 in January 1947 at the University of Princeton. Aspects of Williams' book were popularised by Richard Dawkins' in his 1976 book "The Selfish Gene".
Contents
*Preface
#Introduction 3
#Natural Selection, Adaptation, and Progress 20
#Natural Selection, Ecology and Morphogenesis 56
#Group Selection 92
#Adaptations of the Genetic System 125
#Reproductive Physiology and Behavior 158
#Social Adaptations 193
#Other Supposedly Group-Related Adaptations 221
#The Scientific Study of Adaptation 251
*Literature Cited 275
*Index 291
References
* 1996 edition ISBN 0-691-02615-7
External links
* http://pup.princeton.edu/titles/558.html
* http://cogweb.ucla.edu/Abstracts/Williams_66.html
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