Nature's Oracle: The Life and Work of W.D.Hamilton. OUP Oxford. pp. 383–. ISBN 978-0-19-164277-7. Hamilton, W. D. (2000). "My intended burial and why"...
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organism and the group), popularising ideas developed during the 1960s by W. D. Hamilton and others. From the gene-centred view, it follows that the more two...
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Kin selection (redirect from Hamilton's rule)
it was not until 1964 that W.D. Hamilton generalised the concept and developed it mathematically (resulting in Hamilton's rule) that it began to be widely...
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William Hamilton (theologian) (1924–2012), American theologian W. D. Hamilton (1936–2000), British evolutionary biologist and geneticist Bill Hamilton (agricultural...
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Inclusive fitness (section Hamilton's rule)
fitness is one of two metrics of evolutionary success as defined by W. D. Hamilton in 1964: Personal fitness is the number of offspring that an individual...
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Selfish herd theory (section Hamilton's selfish herd)
behavior inevitably results in aggregations. The theory was proposed by W. D. Hamilton in 1971 to explain the gregarious behavior of a variety of animals....
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the title "The Evolution of Delayed Return Altruism", but reviewer W. D. Hamilton suggested that he change the title to "The Evolution of Reciprocal Altruism"...
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17-52. Hamilton, W. D. (20 March 1964). "The Genetical Evolution of Social Behaviour I". Journal of Theoretical Biology. 7 (1): 1–16. Hamilton, W. D. (20...
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Sir William Rowan Hamilton FRAS (3/4 August 1805 – 2 September 1865) was an Irish mathematician, astronomer, and physicist. He was Andrews Professor of...
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children. The second eldest of these was the evolutionary biologist W. D. Hamilton, and one of their daughters, Mary R. Bliss, who followed her mother...
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