Table of Contents

1: Ghosts of the Museum
2: Messing the Plotter
3: Unequal Cousins
4: Best and Worst Hotels
5: 'Sex Itself'
6: Bright Birds
7: Man of the Sand-dune Tel
8: At the World's Crossroads
9: Bishop Wykeham on Evolution
10: Land of the Rising Sun
11: Being Rare and Successful
12: The Hospitals are Coming
13: Cited but Little Read
14: Wind in the Baobabs
15: Time Like a Dripping Tap
16: The Three Queens
17: Uccello/Othello
18: Health and Horsemen
Appendices:
Our Paper Then and Now
Further Evidence

About the Author

W. D. Hamilton is one of the most influential biologists of the 20th century and is widely regarded as the most important theoretical innovator in the evolutionary study of behaviour since Darwin. He is known throughout the world for his seminal work on social evolution (kin selection), sex ratio evolution and, more recently, for work on the involvement of parasites in sexual selection and on the evolutionary maintenance of sexuality. A Fellow of
the Royal Society and a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Hamilton is a Royal Society Research Professor in the Zoology Department at Oxford University. His awards include the
Albert Wander Foundation Prize (Switzerland, 1992), the Crafoord Prize (Sweden, 1993), and the Kyoto Prize (Japan, 1993).

Reviews

in both the papers and the essays Hamilton is at his best when enthusing about his favourite species. BioEssays The papers in the book are already classics of scientific research, and the introductions deserve to become classics of scientific autobiography" (From the review of Volume 1 in Nature).