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Posted on: February 3, 2008 4:39 AM, by Razib Khan

I stated earlier this week that I would post on papers from William D. Hamilton's Narrow Roads of Gene Land. I've narrowed down which ones I'll blog:

Day 1: The genetical evolution of social behaviour. I
Day 2: The genetical evolution of social behaviour. II
Day 3: The moulding of senescence by natural selection
Day 4: Extraordinary sex ratios
Day 5: Innate social aptitudes of man

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Yay! Some proper science! I shall try to read along with you.

Posted by: Tristram Brelstaff | February 3, 2008 5:23 AM

Hopefully Hamilton talks about the history of the Price equation paper in his background to the "innate social aptitudes..." paper. Price's paper was one of the few modern-era Nature papers that does NOT have citations!

I'm looking forward to your thoughts/comments on all these papers Razib, particularly on the "innate social aptitudes..." paper.

Posted by: rich lawler | February 3, 2008 9:16 AM

i don't think that much of the scholarship in that paper rich. but i thought i should cover it since it is pretty controversial as the 'nazi paper.'

Posted by: razib | February 3, 2008 1:52 PM

I could be thinking of the wrong paper. In some paper in the early 70's Hamilton uses the Price Equation to re-derive his kin selection equation, maybe it's not in the "social aptitudes..." paper.

Posted by: rich lawler | February 3, 2008 2:56 PM