Gentle giant of genetics

摘要

He was socially awkward, charmingly accident-prone, honest, modest, a champion of underdogs. A romantic who saw the human condition as essentially tragic, he felt more at home in the Amazon bush than with people, judging culture "a braggart"; the genes, to his mind, really ran the show. And his theory of inclusive fitness, many hold, is the single most original development in evolutionary theory since Darwin, explaining the workings of natural selection through the gene's eye' point of view.