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Nature's Oracle - The Life and Work of W.D. Hamilton (Paperback)
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Nature's Oracle - The Life and Work of W.D. Hamilton (Paperback)
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W.D.Hamilton (1936-2000) was responsible for a revolution in
thinking about evolutionary biology - a revolution that changed our
understanding of life itself. He played a central role in the
realization that what matters in evolution is not the survival of
the individual but of the survival of its genes. This provided the
solution to the long standing problem of animal altruism that vexed
even Darwin himself, and in due course resulted in terms like
selfish genes, kin selection, and sociobiology becoming familiar to
a wider public. Hamilton went on to solve many more major problems,
and open up ever new fields - he shaped much of our current
understanding of central problems including the evolution of sexual
reproduction and ageing. He became world famous and garnered
international prizes. But this is all in hindsight. In fact,
Hamilton's recognition came late - his career is a classic case of
misunderstood genius. In this illuminating and moving biography
Ullica Segerstrale documents Hamilton's extraordinary life and
work, revealing a man of immense intellectual curiosity, an
uncompromising truth-seeker, a naturalist and jungle explorer, a
risk-taker, an unconventional scientist with a poet's soul and a
deep concern for life on earth and mankind's future.
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