W. D. Hamilton (1936-2000) was a Royal Society Research Professor in the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford. He is known throughout the world for his work on social evolution and sexual selection. He was a fellow of the Royal Society and a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.Dr Mark Ridley is a Lecturer in the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford.

With Narrow Roads Volume 3, the editor and co-authors have ably complemented an orphaned autobiographic series, while simultaneously including relevant personal recollections. After these 'Last Words' of the closely involved, we now wait for the first independent Hamilton biography. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Vol.21 No.12.

• Editorial Preface ; List of contributors ; 1. Oku no Hosomichi: Roads to Hamilton's 'Wrightian' digital parasites in Geneland ; Genetic algorithms and learning ; Both Wrightian and 'parasite' peak shifts enhance genetic algorithm performance in the travelling salesman problem ; 2. Manipulating microbe proceedings: Cytoplasmic bacteria that cause parthenogenesis ; Antibiotics cause parthenogenetic Trichogramma (Hymenoptera/Trichogrammatidae) to revert to sex ; 3. My intended burial and why ; 4. Sex, sexes, and selfish elements ; Cytoplasmic fusion and the nature of sexes ; Covert sex ; 5. Recurrent viruses and theories of sex ; 6. Further homage to Santa Rosalia: Discovery at last of the elusive females of a species of Myrmecolacidae ; More covert sex: the elusive females of Myrmecolacidae. ; Exotic pests and parasites ; 7. Haploid dynamic polymorphism in a host with matching parasites: effects of mutation/subdivision, linkage, and patterns of selection ; 8. Inbreeding in Egypt and in this book: a childish perspective. ; 9. On first looking into a British Treasure (50 years and 80 volumes of New Naturalist Books) ; 10. How to catch the Red Queen? ; Sex against virulence: the coevolution of parasitic diseases ; 11. Between Shoreham and Downe: seeking the key to natural beauty ; 12. Born slave to the Red Queen ; 13. Foreword to S. Turilazzi & M. J. West-Eberhard (eds.), 'Natural history and evolution of paper wasps' ; 14. Bill Hamilton's involvement with the OPV theory: 'medical science's most hated hypothesis' ; 1959 Manchester case of syndrome resembling AIDS ; Foreword to Edward Hooper, 'The River' ; 15. Hamilton and Gaia ; Ecology in the large: Gaia and Genghis Khan ; Spora and Gaia: how microbes fly with their clouds ; Is DSMP synthesis in Chlorophycean macro-algae linked to aerial dispersal? ; 16. Life, evolution, and development in the Amazonian floodplain ; Evolution and diversity in Amazonian floodplain communities. ; 17. A view from Mars ; Autumn tree colours as a handicap signal ; 18. Tomato attractors on the wall of an abandoned church ; Clone mixtures and a pacemaker: new facets of Red-Queen theory and ecology. ; 19. Because topics often fade: letters, essays, notes, digital manuscripts, and other unpublished works ; 20. W. D. Hamilton. ; Index

W. D. Hamilton (1936-2000) was a Royal Society Research Professor in the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford. He is known throughout the world for his work on social evolution and sexual selection. He was a fellow of the Royal Society and a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.Dr Mark Ridley is a Lecturer in the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford.

With Narrow Roads Volume 3, the editor and co-authors have ably complemented an orphaned autobiographic series, while simultaneously including relevant personal recollections. After these 'Last Words' of the closely involved, we now wait for the first independent Hamilton biography. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Vol.21 No.12.

• Editorial Preface ; List of contributors ; 1. Oku no Hosomichi: Roads to Hamilton's 'Wrightian' digital parasites in Geneland ; Genetic algorithms and learning ; Both Wrightian and 'parasite' peak shifts enhance genetic algorithm performance in the travelling salesman problem ; 2. Manipulating microbe proceedings: Cytoplasmic bacteria that cause parthenogenesis ; Antibiotics cause parthenogenetic Trichogramma (Hymenoptera/Trichogrammatidae) to revert to sex ; 3. My intended burial and why ; 4. Sex, sexes, and selfish elements ; Cytoplasmic fusion and the nature of sexes ; Covert sex ; 5. Recurrent viruses and theories of sex ; 6. Further homage to Santa Rosalia: Discovery at last of the elusive females of a species of Myrmecolacidae ; More covert sex: the elusive females of Myrmecolacidae. ; Exotic pests and parasites ; 7. Haploid dynamic polymorphism in a host with matching parasites: effects of mutation/subdivision, linkage, and patterns of selection ; 8. Inbreeding in Egypt and in this book: a childish perspective. ; 9. On first looking into a British Treasure (50 years and 80 volumes of New Naturalist Books) ; 10. How to catch the Red Queen? ; Sex against virulence: the coevolution of parasitic diseases ; 11. Between Shoreham and Downe: seeking the key to natural beauty ; 12. Born slave to the Red Queen ; 13. Foreword to S. Turilazzi & M. J. West-Eberhard (eds.), 'Natural history and evolution of paper wasps' ; 14. Bill Hamilton's involvement with the OPV theory: 'medical science's most hated hypothesis' ; 1959 Manchester case of syndrome resembling AIDS ; Foreword to Edward Hooper, 'The River' ; 15. Hamilton and Gaia ; Ecology in the large: Gaia and Genghis Khan ; Spora and Gaia: how microbes fly with their clouds ; Is DSMP synthesis in Chlorophycean macro-algae linked to aerial dispersal? ; 16. Life, evolution, and development in the Amazonian floodplain ; Evolution and diversity in Amazonian floodplain communities. ; 17. A view from Mars ; Autumn tree colours as a handicap signal ; 18. Tomato attractors on the wall of an abandoned church ; Clone mixtures and a pacemaker: new facets of Red-Queen theory and ecology. ; 19. Because topics often fade: letters, essays, notes, digital manuscripts, and other unpublished works ; 20. W. D. Hamilton. ; Index

W. D. Hamilton (1936-2000) was a Royal Society Research Professor in the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford. He is known throughout the world for his work on social evolution and sexual selection. He was a fellow of the Royal Society and a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.Dr Mark Ridley is a Lecturer in the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford.

With Narrow Roads Volume 3, the editor and co-authors have ably complemented an orphaned autobiographic series, while simultaneously including relevant personal recollections. After these 'Last Words' of the closely involved, we now wait for the first independent Hamilton biography. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Vol.21 No.12.

• Editorial Preface ; List of contributors ; 1. Oku no Hosomichi: Roads to Hamilton's 'Wrightian' digital parasites in Geneland ; Genetic algorithms and learning ; Both Wrightian and 'parasite' peak shifts enhance genetic algorithm performance in the travelling salesman problem ; 2. Manipulating microbe proceedings: Cytoplasmic bacteria that cause parthenogenesis ; Antibiotics cause parthenogenetic Trichogramma (Hymenoptera/Trichogrammatidae) to revert to sex ; 3. My intended burial and why ; 4. Sex, sexes, and selfish elements ; Cytoplasmic fusion and the nature of sexes ; Covert sex ; 5. Recurrent viruses and theories of sex ; 6. Further homage to Santa Rosalia: Discovery at last of the elusive females of a species of Myrmecolacidae ; More covert sex: the elusive females of Myrmecolacidae. ; Exotic pests and parasites ; 7. Haploid dynamic polymorphism in a host with matching parasites: effects of mutation/subdivision, linkage, and patterns of selection ; 8. Inbreeding in Egypt and in this book: a childish perspective. ; 9. On first looking into a British Treasure (50 years and 80 volumes of New Naturalist Books) ; 10. How to catch the Red Queen? ; Sex against virulence: the coevolution of parasitic diseases ; 11. Between Shoreham and Downe: seeking the key to natural beauty ; 12. Born slave to the Red Queen ; 13. Foreword to S. Turilazzi & M. J. West-Eberhard (eds.), 'Natural history and evolution of paper wasps' ; 14. Bill Hamilton's involvement with the OPV theory: 'medical science's most hated hypothesis' ; 1959 Manchester case of syndrome resembling AIDS ; Foreword to Edward Hooper, 'The River' ; 15. Hamilton and Gaia ; Ecology in the large: Gaia and Genghis Khan ; Spora and Gaia: how microbes fly with their clouds ; Is DSMP synthesis in Chlorophycean macro-algae linked to aerial dispersal? ; 16. Life, evolution, and development in the Amazonian floodplain ; Evolution and diversity in Amazonian floodplain communities. ; 17. A view from Mars ; Autumn tree colours as a handicap signal ; 18. Tomato attractors on the wall of an abandoned church ; Clone mixtures and a pacemaker: new facets of Red-Queen theory and ecology. ; 19. Because topics often fade: letters, essays, notes, digital manuscripts, and other unpublished works ; 20. W. D. Hamilton. ; Index