Adaptation and Natural Selection : : A Critique of Some Current Evolutionary Thought / / George Christopher Williams.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2018 English
• VerfasserIn: Williams, George Christopher,
• MitwirkendeR: Dawkins, Richard,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Science Library ; 61
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (328 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Foreword --; Preface (1996) --; CHAPTER 1. Introduction --; CHAPTER 2. Natural Selection, Adaptation, and Progress --; CHAPTER 3. Natural Selection, Ecology, and Morphogenesis --; CHAPTER 4. Group Selection --; CHAPTER 5. Adaptations of the Genetic System --; CHAPTER 6. Reproductive Physiology and Behavior --; CHAPTER 7. Social Adaptations --; CHAPTER 8. Other Supposedly Group-Related Adaptations --; CHAPTER 9. The Scientific Study of Adaptation --; Literature Cited --; Index --; Princeton Science Library
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780691185507; 9783110604252; 9783110603255; 9783110604207; 9783110603200
• DOI: 10.1515/9780691185507?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: George Christopher Williams.

Biological evolution is a fact—but the many conflicting theories of evolution remain controversial even today. When Adaptation and Natural Selection was first published in 1966, it struck a powerful blow against those who argued for the concept of group selection—the idea that evolution acts to select entire species rather than individuals. Williams’s famous work in favor of simple Darwinism over group selection has become a classic of science literature, valued for its thorough and convincing argument and its relevance to many fields outside of biology. Now with a new foreword by Richard Dawkins, Adaptation and Natural Selection is an essential text for understanding the nature of scientific debate.