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''Adaptation and Natural Selection: A Critique of Some Current Evolutionary Thought'' is a 1966 book by the American George C. Williams on evolutionary biology. In it, Williams outlines a Gene-centric View Of Evolution , disparaging Group Selection and Progress .

The book takes its title from a lecture by George Gaylord Simpson in January 1947 at the University Of Princeton .

The concepts were popularised amongst the general public by Richard Dawkins ' 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