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O'Connell, Mike (2016): Book Review. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 176, DOI: 10.34900/lpr.v7i1-2.929, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.34900/lpr.v7i1-2.929
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- Social Evolution and Inclusive Fitness Theory: An Intro- was published 10 years later. A particularly duction by James A.R. Marshall, Princeton Univer- significant early application was the haplo-diploid sity Press, 2015. ISBN 978-0-691-16156-3 hardback, hypothesis of the evolution of eusociality in bees. 195pp. £27.95 (US$39.95). also available as an e-book. However, as the empirical evidence against that has Black and white illustrations and figures. built up from studies of other eusocial species, criti- When William Hamilton formulated his 'Inclusive cism of the usefulness of the rest of the theory has Fitness' theory in 1964/65, he described it as an also increased. An early supporter of the theory, E O extension of the classical theory of Natural Selection Wilson, has recently published a very readable crito deal with the problem of observed altruistic tique against it and the whole subject is a highbehaviour in animals. To 'direct' fitness (survive and profile controversy.