Adaptation and Natural Selection : : A Critique of Some Current Evolutionary Thought / / 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 sele...
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Table of Contents:
- 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