How well designed are we humans to carry out the tasks of life? A noted evolutionary biologist gives some fascinating answers. Elected Ecologist of the Year in 1989, George Williams explains why we have eyes only in the front, why we...

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...

Biological evolution is a fact--but the many conflicting theories of evolution remain controversial even today. In 1966, simple Darwinism, which holds that evolution functions primarily at the level of the individual organism, was...