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Professor George Christopher Williams (b. May 12, 1926) is an American evolutionary biologist. Image File history File links George_C._Williams. ...
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Evolutionary biology is a subfield of biology concerned with the origin and descent of species, as well as their change over time, i. ...
Williams is a professor emeritus of biology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is best known for his vigorous critique of group selection. In his first book, Adaptation and Natural Selection, he argued that adaptation was an "onerous" concept that should only be invoked when necessary, and, that, when it is necessary, selection among genes or individuals would in general be the preferable explanation for it. He elaborated this view in later books and papers, which contributed to the development of a gene-centered view of evolution. He is also well known for his work on the evolution of sex, which is also informed by his interest in the units of selection. A professor (Latin: one who claims publicly to be an expert) (or prof for short) is a senior teacher, lecturer and/or researcher usually employed by a college or university. ...
Biology is the branch of science dealing with the study of life. ...
The State University of New York at Stony Brook (SUNYSB), also commonly referred to as Stony Brook University (SBU), is a public research university located in Stony Brook, New York (about 65 miles east of Manhattan, New York). ...
In evolutionary biology, group selection refers to the idea that alleles can become fixed or spread in a population because of the benefits they bestow on groups, regardless of the fitness of individuals within that group. ...
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The gene-centric view of evolution or gene selection theory holds that natural selection acts at level of the gene, increasing the frequency of those genes whose phenotypic effects sucessfully promotes its own replication. ...
Williams received a Ph.D. in biology from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1955. At Stony Brook he taught courses in marine vertebrate zoology, and he often uses icthyological examples in his books. Doctor of Philosophy, or Ph. ...
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He won the Crafoord Prize for Bioscience jointly with Ernst Mayr and John Maynard Smith in 1999. The Crafoord Prize was established in 1980 by Holger Crafoord, the inventor of the artificial kidney, and his wife Anna-Greta Crafoord. ...
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John Maynard Smith Professor John Maynard Smith, F.R.S. (6 January 1920 – 19 April 2004) was a British evolutionary biologist and geneticist. ...
1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...
He is also an advocate of evolutionary medicine. Evolutionary medicine or Darwinian medicine is a perspective on medicine derived through applying evolutionary theory. ...
Books - Williams, G.C. 1966. Adaptation and Natural Selection. Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.
- Williams, G.C., ed. 1971. Group Selection. Aldine-Atherton, Chicago.
- Williams, G.C. 1975. Sex and Evolution. Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.
- Paradis, J. and G.C. Williams. 1989. T.H. Huxley’s Evolution and Ethics : with New Essays on its Victorian and Sociobiological Context. Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.
- Nesse, R.M. and G.C. Williams. 1994. Why We Get Sick : the New Science of Darwinian Medicine. Times Books, New York.
- Williams, G.C. 1992. Natural Selection: Domains, Levels, and Challenges. Oxford University Press, New York.
- Williams, G.C. 1996. Plan and Purpose in Nature. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London (published in the U.S. in 1997 as The Pony Fish’s Glow : and Other Clues to Plan and Purpose in Nature. Basic Books, New York).
Selected papers - Taylor, P.O. and G.C. Williams. 1984. Demographic parameters at evolutionary equilibrium. Canadian Journal of Zoology 62: 2264-2271.
- Williams, G.C. 1985. A defense of reductionism in evolutionary biology. Oxford Surveys in Evolutionary Biology 2: 127.
- Williams, G.C. 1988. Huxley's Evolution and Ethics in sociobiological perspective. Zygon 23: 383-438.
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