Adaptation and Natural Selection

By G. Williams. 2018

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Subfields: Genetics, Sociology and Political Science

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A practical guide to environmental association analysis in landscape genomics (2015, background): “Local adaptation (Williams 1966; Kawecki & Ebert 2004; Savolainen et al. 2013) is the response to differential selective pressures among populations and habitats, acting on genetically controlled fitness differences among individuals.”
Punitive sentiment as an anti-free rider psychological device. (2002, background): “E-mail addresses: mep2@umail.ucsb.edu (M.E. Price), cosmides@psych.ucsb.edu (L. Cosmides), tooby@anth.ucsb.edu (J. Tooby).”
Fecundity Selection and the Evolution of Reproductive Output and Sex-Specific Body Size in the Liolaemus Lizard Adaptive Radiation (2011, background): “Increasing brood size is consistently predicted by increasing female ln(SVL) under conventional (a) and phylogenetic (independent contrasts, IC) analyses (b) females (Williams 1966; Fitch 1981; Seigel and Ford 1987; Cox et al. 2007).”
The Problem of Biological Individuality (2010, background): “The question of whether individuality is located at the level of a single unit or a group of such units can be answered, in this view, by finding out the level at which adaptations occur, because natural selection causes individuals to become well adapted to their environment (Fisher 1930; Williams ”
Visions of Compassion: Western Scientists and Tibetan Buddhists Examine Human Nature (2002, background): “Indeed, Williams (1992) himself has recently come around to this point of view.”
Macroevolution, hierarchy theory, and the C-value enigma (2004, background): “This proposition was challenged on empirical grounds by Lack (1966), and most forcefully from a theoretical perspective by Williams (1966).”
Evolution of human music through sexual selection. (2000, background): “Quite the opposite: progress in primatological studies of social behavior boomed after the ‘selfish gene’ revolution in biological theory, which showed why group selection almost never works (Williams, 1966; Wilson, 1975; Dawkins, 1976).”
The Evolution of Sociality in Spiders (2007, background): “In addition to selection pressures acting on individuals within groups, natural selection can also operate at the level of the group or society in a multilevel selection framework (Alexander and Borgia, 1978; Leigh, 1999; Okasha, 2004; Reeve and Keller, 1999; Wade, 1978; Williams, 1966).”
Men's masculinity and attractiveness predict their female partners' reported orgasm frequency and timing (2011, background): “The present results would seem to suggest that female orgasm has been specially designed (Williams, 1966) for extracting genetic benefits.”
Female preference for male courtship song and its role as a signal of immune function and condition (2006, neutral): “The condition dependence hypothesis (Williams 1966) predicts that male secondary sexual traits should be particularly sensitive to the overall condition of the individual, and hence provide honest signals of male genetic quality (reviewed in Tomkins et al. 2004).”
Ecological dominance, social competition, and coalitionary arms races: Why humans evolved extraordinary intelligence. (2005, background): “These competencies do not appear to be adaptations for tracking prey or collecting fruit, nor spurious outcomes of neurogenesis or other developmental processes (but see Finlay, Darlington, & Nicastro, 2001; Williams, 1966).”