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To express the matter more vividly, in the world of our model organisms, whose behavior is determined strictly by genotype, we expect to find that no one is prepared to sacrifice his life for any single person, but that everyone will sacrifice it when he can thereby save more than two brothers, or four half-brothers, or eight first-cousins.

W. D. Hamilton

Man is not an organism; he is an intelligence served by organs.

W. D. Hamilton

W. D. Hamilton

W. D. Hamilton

Born: August 1, 1936

Died: March 7, 2000 (aged 63)

Bio: William Donald "Bill" Hamilton, FRS was an English evolutionary biologist, widely recognised as one of the most significant evolutionary theorists of the 20th century.

Known for:

Narrow Roads of Gene Land, Volume 2 (1995)
Charles Sangster (1971)
Charles Sangster and His Works (1988)
Old North Esk on the Miramichi (1979)

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