This is an obituary and a celebratory talk about the great scientist William Hamilton who died earlier this year.
Nature is red in tooth and claw.
The survival of the fittest. Each one is an alibi for the carnivorous version of destiny, that loving kindness is for wimps and wimps get wiped out by the big boys. Sad, but true. True, that is. Today we celebrate the work of someone you ve probably never heard of but whose contribution to science and by association to our hope for progress, was simply enormous.