William Donald Hamilton: References & Edit History

Biographical treatments of W.D. Hamilton include Ullica Segerstrale, Nature’s Oracle: A Life of W.D. Hamilton (2007); and Alan Grafen, “William Donald Hamilton,” Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, 50:109–132 (2004). Hamilton’s original papers, together with autobiographical and biographical commentary, can be found in Narrow Roads of Gene Land—The Collected Papers of W.D. Hamilton, 3 vol. (1996–2005), ed. by Sarah Bunney (vol. 2) and Mark Ridley (vol. 3). Discussions of Hamilton’s work on the genetics of behaviour also occur in Edward O. Wilson, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, 5th ed. (1993); and Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene (1976).