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Evolutionary biology: Gentle giant of genetics

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Oren Harman assesses the first biography of biologist W. D. Hamilton, the 'greatest Darwinian since Darwin'.

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  1. Oren Harman is professor of the history of science at Bar-Ilan University, Israel, and author of a biography of George Price, The Price of Altruism (W. W. Norton, 2010).,

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