Talk:W. D. Hamilton

Opening sentence

The opening sentence sounds like Richard Dawkins' opinion is important in assessing someone's contribution to evolutionary biology, but Hamilton's scientific achievements dwarf those of Dawkins (and I am no Dawkins basher). Rewrite? 129.215.91.27 (talk) 14:46, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

An un-refed and not v g summary

I've deleted "Although the theory can be proven mathematically, to date no empirical studies have calculated values for R, B, and C to determine if Hamilton's rule is ever satisfied in nature. After more than 40 years, some scientists claim that the theory remains unconfirmed, although predictions based upon it are largely supported. Because B and C represent gains and losses, it is impossible to compare actual gains and losses with the possible ones that would result from an alternate history. Statisticians, however, argue that such comparisons can be made between similar families in which different versions of history play out." because it's un-refed and not a very good summary. "can be proven mathematically" is far too strong, indeed Nowak, Tarnita and Wilson basically dis-proved it mathematically. But it can certainly be shown to work mathematically under a range of suitable conditions. But then "no empirical studies have calculated values for R, B, and C to determine if Hamilton's rule is ever satisfied in nature" is also far too strong. There are some quite good papers that go a long way towards this, but at NTW notes its a very complex area and almost impossible to get good enough definitions of r B C to be sure. So best left out altogether for now I think. NBeale (talk) 13:05, 25 May 2012 (UTC)

Need a separate section for Personal Life

This article could use a separate section for Hamilton's personal life. Currently, such information is scattered about in various places in the article. Memills (talk) 05:40, 15 February 2014 (UTC)

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