How “Adaptation and Natural Selection” Changed Two Lives

In 1957. George C. Williams published a seminal paper that initiated new thinking about core evolutionary medicine topics, including the origins of menopause and aging. Nine years later he published Adaptation and Selection (ANS), a book that changed the course of biology more generally. The below essay by two noted biologists describes how reading the book transformed their thinking, and how rereading […]

from The Evolution and Medicine Review http://ift.tt/2oeQtXj