Narrow Roads of Gene Land The Collected Papers of W. D. Hamilton Volume 3: Last Words

by Hamilton, W. D.; Ridley, Mark

• ISBN13: 9780198566908
• ISBN10: 0198566905
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-01-12
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

W. D. Hamilton (1936-2000) has been described by Richard Dawkins as 'a good candidate for the title of most distinguished Darwinian since Darwin'. His work on evolutionary biology continues to influence scientists working across a wide variety of disciplines, including evolution, populationgenetics, animal behaviour, genetics, anthropology, and ecology. This third and final volume of Narrow Roads of Gene Land contains Hamilton's key papers published between 1990 and 2000, a period in which he covered a great diversity of topics, often in collaboration with other scientists. Many ofthe papers in this volume continue his work on sex, and particularly its relation to parasitic disease, but other topics covered include the Gaia theory, the colours of autumn leaves, and the still-controversial hypothesis that the AIDS pandemic accidentally originated in a polio vaccinationcampaign in Africa.Each of the co-authored papers in this volume is preceded by an introduction written by one of Hamilton's co-authors, following the model of the previous two volumes in this series, which brings the reader closer to Hamilton's extraordinary personality and intellect, providing the intellectual andphysical contexts within which each piece of research was developed. Also included are a chapter by Jeremy Leighton John on the Hamilton archive - 'Bill's last great work' - complete with irresistible pictures, and Alan Grafen's biographical memoir, which presents an overview of Bill's life andwork. Together, this unique collection of papers with their biographical introductions provides a profound portrait of one of the twentieth century's most innovative scientists.

Author Biography

W. D. Hamilton (1936-2000) was a Royal Society Research Professor in the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford. He is known throughout the world for his work on social evolution and sexual selection. He was a fellow of the Royal Society and a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dr Mark Ridley is a Lecturer in the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford.

Table of Contents

Editorial Preface	ix
List of Contributors	xiii
Oku No Hosomichi: Roads to Hamilton's `Wrightian' Digital parasites in Geneland	1	(56)
Brian Sumida
Genetic algorithms and evolution	10	(27)
Sumida
Houston
McNamara
Hamilton
Both Wrightian and `parasite' peak shifts enhance genetic algorithm performance in the travelling salesman problem	37	(20)
Sumida
Hamilton
Manipulating microbe proceedings: Cytoplasmic bacteria that cause parthenogenesis	57	(16)
Richard Stouthamer
Antibiotics cause parthenogenetic Trichogramma (Hymenoptera/Trichogrammatidae) to revert to sex	64	(9)
Stouthamer
Luck
Hamilton
My intended burial and why	73	(16)
Hamilton
Sex, sexes and selfish elements	89	(24)
Laurence D. Hurst
Cytoplasmic fusion and the nature of sexes	98	(11)
Hurst
Hamilton
Covert sex	109	(4)
Hurst
Hamilton
Ladle
Recurrent viruses and theories of sex	113	(4)
Hamilton
Further Homage to Santa Rosalia: Discovery at last of the elusive females of a species of Myrmecolacidae (Strepsiptera: Insecta)	117	(18)
Jeyaraney Kathirithamby
More covert sex: the elusive females of Myrmecolacidae	128	(5)
Kathirithamby
Hamilton
Exotic pests and parasites	133	(2)
Kathirithamby
Hamilton
Haploid dynamic polymorphism in a host with matching parasites: Effects of mutation/subdivision, linkage, and patterns of selection	135	(26)
Hamilton
Inbreeding in Egypt and in this book: A childish perspective	161	(22)
Hamilton
On first looking into a British Treasure	183	(6)
Hamilton
How to catch the Red Queen?	189	(16)
Dieter Ebert
Sex against virulence: the coevolution of parasitic diseases	195	(10)
Ebert
Hamilton
Between Shoreham and Downe: Seeking the key to natural beauty	205	(16)
Hamilton
Born slave to the Queen of Life	221	(8)
Hamilton
Foreword to S. Turillazzi & M. J. West Eberhard (eds): Natural History and Evolution of Paper Wasps	229	(2)
Hamilton
Bill Hamilton's involvement with the OPV theory: `Medical science's most hated hypothesis'	231	(26)
Edward Hooper
1959 Manchester case of syndrome resembling AIDS	244	(6)
Hooper
Hamilton
Foreword to E. Hooper, The River	250	(7)
Hamilton
Hamilton and Gaia	257	(50)
Tim Lenton
Ecology in the large: Gaia and Genghis Khan	265	(6)
Hamilton
Spora and Gaia: how microbes fly with their clouds	271	(19)
Hamilton
Lenton
Is DMSP synthesis in Chlorophycean macro-algae linked to aerial dispersal?	290	(17)
Welsh
Viaroli
Hamilton
Lenton
Life, evolution and development in the Amazonian floodplain	307	(42)
Peter Henderson
Evolution and diversity in Amazonian floodplain communities	315	(34)
Henderson
Hamilton
Crampton
A view from Mars	349	(20)
Sam P. Brown
Autumn tree colours as a handicap signal	357	(12)
Hamilton
Brown
Tomato attractors on the wall of an abandoned church	369	(30)
Akira Sasaki
Clone mixtures and a pacemaker: new facets of Red-Queen theory and ecology	376	(23)
Sasaki
Hamilton
Ubeda
Because topics often fade: Letters, essays, notes, digital manuscripts and other unpublished works	399	(24)
Jeremy Leighton John
William Donald Hamilton	423	(36)
Alan Grafen
Name Index	459	(4)
Subject Index	463