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Hamilton: Heir of Darwin and Fisher?

Ullica Segerstrale: Nature’s Oracle: The Life and Work of W. D. Hamilton; Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2013, viii + 441 pp., US $35, ISBN 978-0-19-860727-4

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  1. All page numbers without attribution refer to Segerstrale's book .

  2. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Rome_Statute_of_the_International_Criminal_Court.

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Blute, M. Hamilton: Heir of Darwin and Fisher?. Biol Theory 9, 229–231 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13752-014-0170-2

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