Group Selection (book)
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| Editor | George C. Williams |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | Group selection |
| Publication date | 1971 |
| Publication place | United States |
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| ISBN | 978-0202362229 |
Group Selection is a 1971 book edited by George C. Williams, containing papers written by biologists arguing against the view of group selection as a major force in evolution.[1] The group of biologists writing on a single unified (if somewhat broad) theme contrasts with Williams' earlier seminal 1966 book Adaptation and Natural Selection, whose arguments Williams suspected to be his alone. In particular it contains a reprint, with an erratum, of W.D. Hamilton's classic 1964 paper on inclusive fitness, "The Genetical Evolution of Social Behavior" plus a paper by John Maynard Smith entitled "The Origin and Maintenance of Sex" (pp 163–175), containing ideas on evolution of sex later developed by Maynard Smith; see especially his 1978 book The Evolution of Sex.
References
[edit]- ↑ Balboa, Nora (2021), "George Williams on Group Selection", in Shackelford, Todd K; Weekes-Shackelford, Viviana A (eds.), Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 3436–3437, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-19650-3_1873, ISBN 978-3-319-19649-7, retrieved 2023-09-19
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