Narrow Roads of Gene Land, Volume 2: Evolution of Sex by W. D. Hamilton,
£50, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0198503369
BILL HAMILTON was often light years ahead of his peers, waiting while other
great scientific minds caught up with him. In Narrow Roads of Gene Land,
the second volume of his collected papers, we have an atlas of genius that
maps the meanderings, mental and physical, of this great and lonely man. The
book contains updated versions of all of Hamilton’s major articles dealing with
sex and sexual selection from 1981 to 1990. So we have ample scope to savour…
