Who is George C. Williams from The Selfish Gene and what is their importance?

George C. Williams was a great inspiration to Dawkins' major theory. He saw evolution as a contest between genes, and he saw individuals as a collection of genes. A scientist who studied fish and used their behavior as examples in his work, Williams argued that things don't exactly adapt. It's more precise to say that nature selects among genes or individuals that fail. In other words, failures die.

Williams was a professor at UCLA, an author and a Crafoord Prize winner. He died in 2010.