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George Christopher Williams

Overview

George Christopher Williams (May 12, 1926 – September 8, 2010) was an American evolutionary biologist.

Williams was a professor of biology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook who was best known for his vigorous critique of group selection. The work of Williams in this area, along with W. D. Hamilton, John Maynard Smith, Richard Dawkins, and others led to the development of the gene-centered view of evolution in the 1960s.

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Philosophers who discussed George Christopher Williams

• Richard Dawkins

Related ideas

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Natural selection
• Richard Dawkins
• University of California, Los Angeles
• Evolutionary biology
• Group selection
• Nature (journal)
• Biology
• Ernst Mayr
• Adaptation
• Gene-centered view of evolution

Opposing perspectives

• Occam's razor

Place in the tradition

Part of Evolutionary ethics.

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