george c. williams

Professor George Christopher Williams (born May 12 1926) is an American evolutionary biologist. Williams is emeritus professor of biology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is noted for starting the Williams revolution, presenting a gene-centric basis for biology with his 1966 book Adaptation and Natural Selection which was made even more explicit by Richard Dawkins' book The Selfish Gene. Williams has a 1955 PhD in biology from the University of California at Los Angeles. He won the 1999 Crafoord Prize for Bioscience jointly with Ernst Mayr and John Maynard Smith. He is also an advocate of evolutionary medicine.

Bibliography

Williams, G.C. 1992. Natural Selection: Domains, Levels, and Challenges. Oxford University Press.
Williams, G.C. 1988. Huxley's Evolution and Ethics in sociobiological perspective. Zygon 23: 383-438.
Williams, G.C. 1985. A defense of reductionism in evolutionary biology. Oxford Surv. Evol. Biol. 2: 127.
Taylor, P.O. and G.C. Williams. 1984. Demographic parameters at evolutionary equilibrium. Canad. J. Zool. 62: 2264-2271.
Williams, G.C. 1975. Sex and Evolution. Princeton University Press.
Williams, G.C. 1966. Adaptation and Natural Selection. Princeton University Press.

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