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Professor George Christopher Williams (b. May 12, 1926) is an American evolutionary biologist. Events 1191 - Richard I of England marries Berengaria of Navarre. Year 1926 ( MCMXXVI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Evolutionary biology is a sub-field of Biology concerned with the origin of Species from a Common descent, and Descent of species

Williams is a professor emeritus of biology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. The meaning of the word professor ( Latin: professor, person who professes to be an expert in some art or science teacher of highest rank) varies Foundations of modern biology There are five unifying principles State University of New York at Stony Brook, commonly known as Stony Brook University, is a public research university located in Stony Brook, New York He is best known for his vigorous critique of group selection. 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 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. Adaptation and Natural Selection A Critique of Some Current Evolutionary Thought is a 1966 book by the American Evolutionary biologist An adaptation is a characteristic of an Organism that has been favored by Natural selection and In the context of Evolution, certain traits or Alleles of a Species may be subject to selection History See also History of genetics The existence of genes was first suggested by Gregor Mendel (1822-1884 who in the 1860s studied inheritance He elaborated this view in later books and papers, which contributed to the development of a gene-centered view of evolution. The gene-centered view of evolution, gene selection theory or selfish gene theory holds that Natural selection acts through differential survival of competing He is also well known for his work on the evolution of sex, which is also informed by his interest in the unit of selection. A unit of selection is a biological entity within the hierarchy of biological organisation (e

Williams received a Ph.D. in biology from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1955. "PhD" redirects here for other uses see PhD (disambiguation. The University of California Los Angeles (generally known as UCLA) is a public research university located in Westwood Los Angeles, California, United At Stony Brook he taught courses in marine vertebrate zoology, and he often uses ichthyological examples in his books. Marine biology is the scientific study of living Organisms in the Ocean or other marine or Brackish bodies of water Vertebrates are members of the Subphylum Vertebrata, Chordates with backbones or spinal columns The grouping sometimes includes Zoology (from Greek ζῷον, zoon, "animal" + λόγος, " Logos " "knowledge" is the branch of Ichthyology (from Greek ἰχθυ ikhthu, "fish" and λόγος logos, "knowledge" is the branch of Zoology devoted to the study

He won the Crafoord Prize for Bioscience jointly with Ernst Mayr and John Maynard Smith in 1999. The annual Crafoord Prize is a science prize established in 1980 by Holger Crafoord, a Swedish industrialist and his wife Anna-Greta Crafoord Ernst Walter Mayr ( July 5, 1904, Kempten, Germany &ndash February 3, 2005, Bedford Massachusetts U Maynard Smith redirects here -- for other uses see Maynard Smith (disambiguation Professor John Maynard Smith, F

He is also an advocate of evolutionary medicine. Evolutionary medicine or Darwinian medicine is the field of knowledge that integrates Medicine with Evolutionary biology, more specifically with the

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.
Williams, G. C. 1992. Natural Selection: Domains, Levels, and Challenges. Oxford University Press, New York.
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. 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.
Williams, G. C. 1995. A package of information In J. Brockman, ed. , The Third Culture, New York: Touchstone, pp. 38-50.

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