Re: Genes affecting dispersion - Hamilton's neglected idea

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Date: 07/21/04 

Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 15:35:23 +0000 (UTC)

jimmenegay@sbcglobal.net (Jim Menegay) wrote in message news:<cdjf2s$1u8g$1@darwin.ediacara.org>...
> The last thing I really want to do is to start another Hamilton's
> rule thread. But I was rereading Lonely Roads the other day, and I
> noticed something I had missed before. The 1964 paper is not just
> about the evolution of genes affecting "b" and "c" (altruism and
> spite). It is also about genes affecting "r" (dispersion).
>

I assume you mean Narrow Roads? If so, there should also be a paper by
Hamilton & May (1975? Definitely 1970s) about evolution of dispersal,
later in the book.

Also, spite wasn't mentioned at all in the 1964 JTB papers. That
didn't come until after Price's (1970) theorem.

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