Talk:W. D. Hamilton
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Thanks Duncharris, this page now looks like a true memorial. Great research. I especially liked the poetic bit from his will. A world away from the stub that i started as an anonymous contributor. Shyamal 04:35, 3 May 2004 (UTC)
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[edit] postscript
I'm confused by the postscript... his [obituary in The Guardian] refers to his wish to be decomposed by beetles as a "fantasy," but the article seems to imply that it was actually carried out. It also seems contradictory since it says he was interred in Wytham Woods but his "directions" refer to a location in Brazil. Delmonte 16:47, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Hamilton's Rule (last paragraph)
Well, for starters Homoptera and Isoptera aren't haplodiploid and I'm not too sure about the rest of the paragraph either! I'll re-write the paragraph once I gather my facts and find the time! Shayno 20:01, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
Update: Shayno 19:35, 1 November 2006 (UTC): Removed the mention of aphids and termites. I wrote something longer explaining eusociality in termites but it got a little technical, to the point where it was out of place on a biography page. I'll go spend my efforts on the Eusociality article!
[edit] British academic jargon
The article states, "Working through the stodgy prose, Hamilton later blamed Fisher's book for only getting 2:1 degree." Would someone be able to clarify this? From the context, I gather that a "2:1 degree" is somehow inferior to something else that a student might get, but I'm not sure. Also, does it mean that the "blame" arose because the book was hard to understand, or because Hamilton spent so much time on it that he neglected his regular coursework? Thanks for any help you can give! JamesMLane t c 13:05, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
- Added a link to British undergraduate degree classification to explain 2:1 degree. Shayno 10:47, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] AIDS and HIV
As far as I can tell from 1 minute of dedicated and painstaking research, Hamilton's views on AIDS are emphatically not that AIDS is not caused by HIV. Perhaps this should be explicitly stated, as until now that was the only controversial theory of AIDS I had heard of...
ie We could say "the origin of the HIV virus" rather than "the origin of the AIDS epidemic" lay in oral polio vaccines... Evercat 23:17, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Erdos Number
William Hamilton does not have an Erdos number according to the link on the Wikipedia page. Can someone who knows more about this topic than I do fix this?
Caveman1949 (talk) 22:53, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
