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| THE TIMES March 9 2000 OBITUARIES Leader of the second Darwinian revolution who saw evolutionary advantage from the gene's point of view Darwin was famously caricatured as a monkey. Hamilton too was a passionate naturalist whose theories were grounded in fieldwork PROFESSOR W. D. HAMILTON Professor W. D. Hamilton, FRS, biologist, was born on August 1, 1936. He died on March 7 aged 63 The evolutionary biologist W. D. Hamilton was one of the leaders of what has been called "the second Darwinian revolution", and Richard Dawkins, author of The Selfish Gene, has called him one of the most important Darwinians of the 20th century. Hamilton, who taught at Oxford for his last 15 years, proposed the theory of kin selection as an explanation of why animals are sometimes altruistic towards each other, despite the struggle for the survival of the fittest. He then moved on to the difficult problem of the evolution of sex from asexual reproduction, and proposed the now widely discussed parasite theory. Full text: http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/2000/03/09/timobiobi03001.html |
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