Adaptation and natural selection : a critique of some current evolutionary thought / George C. Williams, With a new foreword by Richard Dawkins.
Material type: TextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2019.Edition: New princeton science library editionDescription: xxiii, 307 p. ; 22 cmISBN:- 9780691182865 (pbk.)
- 0691185506
- Adaptation (Biology)
- Natural selection
- Adaptation, Biological
- Adaptation (Biologie)
- SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution
- Adaptation (Biology)
- Natural selection
- Adaptation and Natural Selection
- Adaptation
- Adaptive radiation
- Allele
- Amphibian
- Analogy
- Aposematism
- Autotroph
- Bacteria
- Behavior
- Biologist
- Biology
- Bird
- Charles Darwin
- Competition
- Courtship
- Darwinism
- Dominance hierarchy
- Earthworm
- Ecology
- Effectiveness
- Enzyme
- Eusociality
- Evolution of sexual reproduction
- Evolution
- Evolutionary developmental biology
- Evolutionary progress
- Explanation
- Fecundity
- Female
- Fertilisation
- Fitness (biology)
- Functional organization
- Gamete
- Gene pool
- Gene
- Genetic diversity
- Genetic recombination
- Genotype
- Germ cell
- Germ plasm
- Group selection
- Heredity
- Hybrid (biology)
- In Specie
- Inclusive fitness
- Indication (medicine)
- Insect
- Invertebrate
- Larva
- Mammal
- Mammalian reproduction
- Mating
- Meiosis
- Mendelian inheritance
- Morphogenesis
- Mortality rate
- Mutation rate
- Mutation
- Natural selection
- Niles Eldredge
- Nutrition
- Obligate
- Occam's razor
- Offspring
- Organism
- Parthenogenesis
- Phenotype
- Physiology
- Population density
- Population genetics
- Population size
- Predation
- Probability
- Protein
- Protist
- Reader (academic rank)
- Reproduction
- Reproductive success
- Requirement
- Selection coefficient
- Senescence
- Sex ratio
- Sex
- Sexual conflict
- Sexual reproduction
- Shoaling and schooling
- Social animal
- Student (magazine)
- Suggestion
- Taxonomy (biology)
- Teleonomy
- Territory (animal)
- The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection
- Ungulate
- University of California, Berkeley
- Vertebrate
- Viviparity
- Woodpecker
- Zygote
- 578.4 WILL 23
- QH546 .W55 2019
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Foreword -- Preface (1996) -- Preface -- Introduction -- Natural selection, adaptation, and progress -- Natural selection, ecology, and morphogenesis -- Group selection -- Adaptation of the genetic system -- Reproductive physiology and behavior -- Social adaptations -- Other supposedly group-related adaptations -- The scientific study of adaptation.
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.
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