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Adaptation and Natural Selection
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Adaptation and Natural Selection
Adaptation and Natural Selection: A Critique of Some Current Evolutionary Thought
is a 1966 book by the American
evolutionary biologist
George C. Williams
. Williams, in what is now considered a
classic
by evolutionary biologists, outlines a
gene-centered view of evolution
, disputes notions of
evolutionary progress
, and criticizes contemporary models of group selection, including the theories of
Alfred Emerson
,
A. H. Sturtevant
, and to a smaller extent, the work of
V. C. Wynne-Edwards
. The book takes its title from a lecture by
George Gaylord Simpson
in January 1947 at the
Princeton University
. Aspects of Williams' book were popularised by
Richard Dawkins
' in his 1976 book
The Selfish Gene
.
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