__________ George C. Williams __________
Professor Emeritus, Department of Ecology and Evolution, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794-5245, USA.
Main research focus: Natural selection and the evolution of behavior; a leading thinker on evolution in the 20th century.
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Nesse, R.M./Williams, G.C. 1999. On Darwinian medicine.
Life Science Research
3:
1—17.
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Keyword:
evolutionary medicine.
Nesse, R.M./Williams, G.C. 1999.
Research designs that address evolutionary questions about medical disorders.
In
Stearns, Evolution in Health and Disease,
16—26.
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Keywords:
evolutionary medicine •
medical disorder •
research design.
Nesse, R.M./Williams, G.C. 1997. Evolutionary biology in the medical curriculum: What every physician should know.
Bioscience
47:
664—666.
[.pdf]
Keywords:
evolutionary medicine •
medical education.
Nesse, R.M./Williams, G.C. 1994. Nothing to sneeze at: Allergy in evolutionary perspective.
The Sciences
#(Nov./Dec.):
34—38.
Keywords:
allergy •
evolutionary medicine.
Nesse, R.M./Williams, G.C. 1994.
Why We Get Sick? : The New Science of Darwinian Medicine.
New York: Times Books, Random House.
Also: New York: Vintage Books, 1996. Published in the U.K. as Evolution and Healing: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1995. #
Keywords:
human behavioral propensities •
human food habits •
Pleistocene.
Williams, G.C. 1993.
Mother Nature is a wicked old witch.
In
Nitecki/Nitecki, Evolutionary Ethics,
217—231.
Williams, G.C. 1992.
Natural Selection: Domains, Levels, and Challenges.
New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Keyword:
selectionism.
Williams, G.C./Nesse, R.M. 1991. The dawn of Darwinian medicine.
Quarterly Review of Biology
66:
1—22.
Keywords:
ethology •
evolutionary medicine.
Williams, G.C. 1988. Huxley's evolution and ethics in sociobiological perspective.
Zygon
23:
383—407.
Keywords:
evolutionary ethics •
sociobiology.
Williams, G.C. 1988. Reply to comments on "Huxley's Evolution and Ethics in Sociobiological Perspective".
Zygon
23:
437—438.
Keywords:
evolutionary ethics •
sociobiology.
Williams, G.C. 1985. A defense of reductionism in evolutionary biology.
Oxford Surveys in Evolutionary Biology
2:
1—27.
Williams, G.C. 1975.
Sex and Evolution.
Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Keywords:
ethology •
evolution of sex •
selectionism •
sexual selection.
Williams, G.C. 1966.
Adaptation and Natural Selection.
Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Keywords:
critique of group selection •
ethology •
reduction •
selectionism •
sociobiology.
Williams, G.C./Williams, D.C. 1957. Natural selection of individually harmful social adaptations among sibs with special reference social insects.
Evolution
11:
32—39.
Keywords:
individually harmful social adaptations •
natural selection •
social insects.
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