Behavioral Ecology Vol. 12 No. 3: 261
© 2001 International Society for Behavioral Ecology
Hamilton Symposium |
Introduction to William D. Hamilton Symposium
Past President, International Society for Behavioral Ecology J. G. Schurman Professor of Behavioral Ecology, Cornell University
On 7 March 2000, William Donald Hamilton died in Oxford, England, from
malaria contracted during a field expedition to the Congo. With his death, the
field of evolutionary biology arguably lost its greatest practitioner since
Charles Darwin. W. D. Hamilton made major contributions to many areas of
evolutionary biology, but perhaps his greatest impact was on the discipline of
behavioral ecology. The topics that he focused his energies upon include
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