George C. Williams
George C. Williams
George Christopher Williamswas an American evolutionary biologist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth12 May 1926
CountryUnited States of America
adaptation assumption book criticism directed general main rather simply
I think that my main criticism in that book was directed at the general assumption that adaptation characterizes populations and species, rather than simply the individuals in the populations and species.
numbers variation theory
Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and that every organism is capable of increasing its numbers in sufficiently favorable circumstances.