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Parasites and altruism: converging roads

Author(s) -

Marlene Zuk,

Mark E. Borrello

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

biology letters

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.596

H-Index - 110

eISSN - 1744-957X

pISSN - 1744-9561

DOI - 10.1098/rsbl.2013.0367

Subject(s) - biology , altruism (biology) , social evolution , field (mathematics) , biological evolution , evolutionary biology , work (physics) , epistemology , environmental ethics , ecology , positive economics , genetics , mechanical engineering , philosophy , mathematics , pure mathematics , engineering , economics

W.D. Hamilton was most known for his work on two topics: social evolution and parasites. Although at first glance these seem to be disparate interests, they share many attributes and have logical connections within evolutionary biology. Nevertheless, Hamilton's contributions in these areas met with very different receptions, with his place in the field of social evolution assured, but his work on the role of parasites perceived as more specialized. We take an historical approach to examine the reasons for this difference.

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