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Narrow Roads Of Gene Land

Hamilton, W D·2001

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The second volume of the collected papers of W D Hamilton, each one introduced by an autobiographical essay. Hamilton is the most important theoretical biologist of the 20th century and his papers, not especially numerous, have had, and continue to exert, an enormous influence. Many were originally published in obscure and inaccessible places. Volume 1 (OUP, still in print) was devoted mainly to selection for social behaviour, the first half of Hamilton's life's work; Volume 2 is on the other half, on sex and sexual selection, and it includes the 18 papers published between 1980 and 1991. Each paper is accompanied by a specially written introduction describing why the work was done, how the paper came to be written, and its eventual fate. The introductions, written in an accessible, non-technical style, include history, opinion, and excerpts from Hamilton's life.

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  • Humans display a large amount of cooperation between non-relatives, in contrast to other eusocial species.

    “In contrast to other eusocial species, such as bees, ants or termites, humans display a large amount of cooperation between non-relatives 12-14 .”

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  • Altruism toward genetic relatives can evolve by kin selection provided Hamilton's rule holds: the coefficient of relatedness r between donor and recipient must exceed the cost-to-benefit ratio of the altruistic act.

    “Altruism toward genetic relatives can evolve by kin selection provided Hamilton's rule 14 holds: the coefficient of relatedness, r , between the donor and the recipient has to exceed the cost to benefit ratio of the altruistic act,”

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Authors
Hamilton, W. D.
Corresponding author
Hamilton, W D
Published
2001-11-29
OpenAlex
W44208168
Cited by
246
References
10
Citations by year
2025: 6 · 2024: 11 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 8 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 6 · 2016: 12 · 2015: 6 · 2014: 13 · 2013: 12 · 2012: 3
FWCI
1.60
Type
book
Language
en
Open access
closed
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Philosophy and History of Science
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
Keywords
sexual selection, sex, kin selection, social behavior, evolutionary biology, history of evolutionary theory, gene-culture coevolution

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