Adaptation and Natural Selection: A Critic of Some Current Evolutionary Thought.

First Edition of this Classic in Scientific Literature Adaptation and Natural Selection; Signed by Richard Dawkins

Adaptation and Natural Selection: A Critic of Some Current Evolutionary Thought.

WILLIAMS, George C. [Richard Dawkins].

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Item Number: 112392

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1966.

First edition of this landmark work. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Richard Dawkins on the half-title page. Many aspects of this book were popularized by Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene. Both volumes instrumental in introducing the gene’s-eye view to evolutionary biology. Near fine in a very good dust jacket, name and bookplate. Rare and desirable signed by one of the leading scientists of the twentieth century.

Biological evolution is a fact—but the many conflicting theories of evolution remain controversial even today. When Adaptation and Natural Selection was first published in 1966, it struck a powerful blow against those who argued for the concept of group selection—the idea that evolution acts to select entire species rather than individuals. Williams’s famous work in favor of simple Darwinism over group selection has become a classic of science literature, valued for its thorough and convincing argument and its relevance to many fields outside of biology.

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