Group Selection (book)

{{Short description|1971 book edited by George C. William}}

{{Infobox book |

| name = Group Selection

| image = File:Group Selection (George C. Williams book).jpg

| caption = Cover

| editor = George C. Williams

| country = United States

| language = English

| subject = Group selection

| publisher =

| pub_date = 1971

| media_type = Print

| pages =

| isbn = 978-0202362229

}}

Group Selection is a 1971 book edited by George C. Williams, containing papers written by biologists arguing against the view of group selection as a major force in evolution.{{Citation |last=Balboa |first=Nora |title=George Williams on Group Selection |date=2021 |url=https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-319-19650-3_1873 |work=Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science |pages=3436–3437 |editor-last=Shackelford |editor-first=Todd K |access-date=2023-09-19 |place=Cham |publisher=Springer International Publishing |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-3-319-19650-3_1873 |isbn=978-3-319-19649-7 |editor2-last=Weekes-Shackelford |editor2-first=Viviana A|url-access=subscription }} The group of biologists writing on a single unified (if somewhat broad) theme contrasts with Williams' earlier seminal 1966 book Adaptation and Natural Selection, whose arguments Williams suspected to be his alone. In particular it contains a reprint, with an erratum, of W.D. Hamilton's classic 1964 paper on inclusive fitness, "The Genetical Evolution of Social Behavior" plus a paper by John Maynard Smith entitled "The Origin and Maintenance of Sex" (pp 163–175), containing ideas on evolution of sex later developed by Maynard Smith; see especially his 1978 book The Evolution of Sex.