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- Williams argued that an organism faces these sorts of evolutionary tradeoffs throughout its lifetime: how much energy to invest in maturing before starting to reproduce, for example, or how much to invest in raising offspring before searching for another mate. Natural selection should find a balance between an animal’s current investment in itself and its offspring and in potential future benefits. Williams speculated that animals could also keep track of how these factors change and adjust their behavior accordingly–like an investor deciding which stocks to keep or sell.
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The evolutionary biologist George Williams died on Wednesday at the age of 84. He was one of the most important evolutionary biologists of the twentieth century, although he’s not a familiar name beyond scientific circles. Gently, persistently, he reformulated how we think about natural selection and its many effects. As Richard Dawkins noted today, “He was one of the great evolutionary thinkers of my lifetime.”
In 2004, I wrote a profile of Williams for Science. The occasion was a meeting that was held in Williams’s honor, in which one scientist after another stood up to talk about the influence he had had on their work. They investigated everything from human behavior to the mating of fish to disorders of pregnancy. How on Earth could he have so much influence in so many different directions? Permit me to self-plagiarize:
It was a privilege to talk to Williams, first over the phone and then at the meeting itself. Williams was wonderfully articulate in all his answers. But it didn’t take long for me to notice that he would sometimes forget a person’s name. After one of these pauses, Williams stated, matter-of-factly, “Let me point out, I’m an Alzheimer’s victim.” And then he returned to his critique of group selection.
My head started to spin. I tried to continue to play the part of the reporter, but I had to keep myself from contemplating the melancholy irony of the moment. Starting in 1978, when he was 52, Williams kept track of his physical decline. He would go once a year to a track near his home on Long Island and time how long it took him to run 1700 meters. Some years he ran a little faster than the last, but over the course of twelve years his performance got worse and worse. When George Williams won the Crafoord Prize in 1999 (a prize considered equivalent to the Nobel Prize for branches of biology other than physiology and medicine), he proudly showed a graph of his slowing pace in order to drive home his theories on aging. During our conversation, Williams told me that his own Alzheimer’s disease was the result of the same tradeoff. He was, as ever, the consummate biologist.
George Williams was a pioneer of natural selection theory and adaptation research. He died in 2010 at 84, after living with Alzheimer's disease for over a decade.
Learn about Sir George Williams, the English businessman and founder of the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA), the oldest and largest youth charity in the world. Discover his early life, works, honours and legacy in this comprehensive biography.
Learn about the life and legacy of Sir George Williams, who established the YMCA in 1844 with ten Christian young men in London. See photos of his birthplace, church, school, chair, chest, tomb and more.
Oct 11, 2021 · Learn about the life and legacy of George Williams, who started the YMCA in 1844 in London. Watch a video clip of his voice and read a poem by a former World YMCA Secretary-General.
George Williams is an English rugby league footballer who plays for Warrington Wolves and England. He has also played for Wigan Warriors and Canberra Raiders, and won several club and international honours.
Jul 6, 2020 · The 24-year-old midfielder, who played in the Euro 2016 semi-finals, was not offered a new deal by League Two Forest Green. He is now looking for a new club amid the financial uncertainty and the pandemic's impact on football.
