George C. Williams

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George Christopher Williams is currently Professor Emeritus of Ecology and Evolution at State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is a member of numerous learned societies, including the National Academy of Science and the Ecological Society of America, and the recipient of many awards.

While conducting research into a variety of topics including the evolution of fish and the origin of sexuality, Williams is best known for the Williams revolution which is set out in his seminal work Adaptation and Natural Selection, a thoroughgoing defense of individual-level natural selection and critique of the group selection theories made popular by V.C. Wynne-Edwards and others. The Williams revolution saw gene selection become the leading paradigm of evolution.