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George Christopher Williams 1926–2010
Author(s) -
Futuyma Douglas J.,
Stearns Stephen C.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
evolution
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.84
H-Index - 199
eISSN - 1558-5646
pISSN - 0014-3820
DOI - 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2010.01169.x
Subject(s) - biology , george (robot) , art history , history
George C. Williams, renowned evolutionary biologist and Professor Emeritus of Ecology and Evolution at Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, New York, passed away on 8 September 2010. As readers of Evolution know, he is widely regarded as one of the most influential and incisive evolutionary biologists of the 20th century. In Adaptation and Natural Selection (hereafter denoted A&NS) (Williams 1966a) and later writings, he helped to build a “science of adaptation.” Together with Randolph Nesse, he launched the field of “Darwinian medicine,” an evolutionary approach to human health and disease.