A01=George Christopher Williams
Adaptive radiation
Anisogamy
Apomixis
Arachnid
Asexual reproduction
Assortative mating
Author_George Christopher Williams
Category=PSAJ
Charles Darwin
Chromosomal crossover
Cladogenesis
Competitive exclusion principle
Courtship
Disruptive selection
Drosophila
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Evolution
Evolutionary developmental biology
Fecundity
Female
Fertilisation
Fitness (biology)
Frequency-dependent selection
Gamete
Gene
Gene Frequency
Genetic assimilation
Genetic recombination
Genetic variability
Genotype
Group selection
Hermaphrodite
Heterozygote advantage
Hybrid (biology)
Introgression
Isogamy
Kin selection
Lamarckism
Larva
Linkage disequilibrium
Mate choice
Mating
Meiosis
Mendelian inheritance
Mutation rate
Natural selection
Obligate parasite
Organism
Outcrossing
Oviparity
Parental investment
Parthenogenesis
Ploidy
Polar body
Polyembryony
Polymorphism (biology)
Population genetics
Promiscuity
Propagule
Rate of evolution
Reproduction
Reproductive system
Segregate (taxonomy)
Selection coefficient
Selfing
Sex ratio
Sexual dimorphism
Sexual reproduction
Sexual selection
Spawn (biology)
Species complex
Sperm
Zygote
Product details
- ISBN 9780691081526
- Weight: 255g
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 21 Mar 1975
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book explores the relationship between various types of reproduction and the evolutionary process. Starting with the concept of meiosis, George C. Williams states the conditions under which an organism with both sexual and asexual reproductive capacities will employ each mode. He argues that in low-fecundity higher organisms, sexual reproduction is generally maladaptive, and persists because there is no ready means of developing an asexual alternative. The book then considers the evolutionary development of diverse forms of sexuality, such as anisogamy, hermaphroditism. and the evolution of differences between males and females in reproductive strategy. The final two chapters examine the effect of genetic recombination on the evolutionary process itself.
George C. Williams is Professor of Biological Sciences in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He has published Adaptation and Natural Selection (1966) and Group Selection (Aldine-Atherton, 1971).
