W. D. Hamilton is a Royal Society Research Professor in the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford. He is known throughout the world for his work on social evolution and sexual selection. He is a fellow of the Royal Society and a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. W.D. Hamilton, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS. Tel. 01865-271166.

• Preface ; 1. Shoulders of giants: The evolution of altruistic behaviour ; 2. Hamilton's rule: The genetical evolution of social behaviour, I and II ; 3. Live now, pay later: The moulding of senescence by natural selection ; 4. Gender and genome: Extraordinary sex ratios ; 5. Spite and Price: Selfish and spiteful behaviour in an evolutionary model ; 6. America: Selection of selfish and altruistic behaviour in some extreme models ; 7. Panic stations: Geometry for the selfish herd ; 8. Sorority avenue: Altruism and related phenomena, mainly in social insects ; 9. Friends, Romans, groups: Innate social aptitudes of man: an approach from evolutionary genetics ; 10. Venus too kind: Gamblers since life began: Barnacle, aphids, elms ; 11. Elm and Australian: Dispersal in stable habitats ; 12. Funeral Feasts: Evolution and diversity under bark ; 13. Discordant insects: Wingless and fighting males in fig wasps and other insects ; 14. Astringent leaves: Low nutritive quality as defence against herbivores ; 15. Advanced arts of exit: Evolutionarily stable dispersal strategies ; Epilogue ; Acknowledgements ; Index

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