Adaptation and Natural Selection
A Critique of Some Current Evolutionary Thought
1st Edition
Published on 14. January 2019
328 pages
978-0-691-18550-7 (ISBN)
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George Christopher Williams
Adaptation and Natural Selection
A Critique of Some Current Evolutionary Thought
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10/2018
Princeton University Press
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George C. Williams (1926-2010) was professor emeritus of ecology and evolution at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Richard Dawkins is professor emeritus at the University of Oxford. An evolutionary biologist, he is the bestselling author of many books, including The Selfish Gene, The God Delusion, and The Extended Phenotype.
Content
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- FOREWORD
- PREFACE (1996)
- PREFACE
- 1. INTRODUCTION
- 2. NATURAL SELECTION, ADAPTATION, AND PROGRESS
- 3. NATURAL SELECTION, ECOLOGY, AND MORPHOGENESIS
- 4. GROUP SELECTION
- 5. ADAPTATIONS OF THE GENETIC SYSTEM
- 6. REPRODUCTIVE PHYSIOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR
- 7. SOCIAL ADAPTATIONS
- 8. OTHER SUPPOSEDLY GROUP-RELATED ADAPTATIONS
- 9. THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF ADAPTATION
- LITERATURE CITED
- INDEX
