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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
#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
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