William D. Hamilton's Work in Evolutionary Game Theory

William D. Hamilton's impact on contemporary views of evolution has been nothing short of revolutionary. His contributions to our reasoning on kin selection, genomic conflicts, parasitism, and costs of sex dominate these fields. He also had an important, if somewhat less obvious, influence on evolutionary game theory. This field, which is now well-established both in biology and in economics, is usually (and rightly) attributed to John Maynard Smith: the canonical references are a briefjoint paper with George Price (Maynard Smith and Price, 1973), and the book "Evolution and the Theory o