Word: hamilton
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...there a phrase to capture all of this? Mondale could not find one. Nor could Hamilton Jordan or Jody Powell. A search through Carter's hundreds of thousands of public words suggests no easy pigeonholes. "It comes out as Jimmy Carter and not a particular philosophy," says a staffer. Carter's top domestic-programs man, Stuart Eizenstat, sees the Carter contribution shaping up roughly in the Democratic progressive tradition-but with important differences. Carter's Keynesian economics is tinged with his rural reluctance to spend a buck. His compassionate populism is tempered by his suspicions of mindless...
Indeed, few academic theories have spread so fast and with so little hard proof. Apart from the Hamilton-Trivers work on altruism, there has been little to impress the skeptics, and no hard evidence has been presented to show that genes influence human cultural behavior. The power of sociobiology comes from its astonishing promise to link the physical sciences with the human sciences and to bring all behavior from Drosophila to Homo sapiens under one great discipline...
British Biologist William Hamilton in 1964 explained how altruism could help an individual spread his genes; he argued that the principle explained the social life of insects...
...ants, bees and wasps, daughters of the queen share an average of three-quarters of their genes (see diagram). Because the daughters are more related to each other than they would be to their own offspring, said Hamilton, it is in their genetic self-interest not to breed but to assist the queen in producing more daughters...
Some years later, Trivers reasoned that if Hamilton was right about the social insects, worker ants would spend three times the energy rearing sisters as rearing brothers, because the workers are three times more closely related to their sisters than to their brothers. Trivers and his associate, Hope Hare, then analyzed thousands of ants of 20 different species and confirmed the 3-to-1 female dominance?the strongest evidence so far that organisms act as if they understand the underlying genetics...