TY - JOUR
T1 - Helical Biography and the Historical Craft
T2 - The Case of Altruism and George Price
AU - Harman, Oren
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2011 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2011/11
Y1 - 2011/11
N2 - The life of George Price (1922-1975), the eccentric polymath genius and father of the Price equation, is used as a prism and counterpoint through which to consider an age-old evolutionary conundrum: the origins of altruism. This biographical project, and biography and history more generally, are considered in terms of the possibility of using form to convey content in particular ways. Closer to an art form than a science, this approach to scholarship presents both a unique challenge and promise.
AB - The life of George Price (1922-1975), the eccentric polymath genius and father of the Price equation, is used as a prism and counterpoint through which to consider an age-old evolutionary conundrum: the origins of altruism. This biographical project, and biography and history more generally, are considered in terms of the possibility of using form to convey content in particular ways. Closer to an art form than a science, this approach to scholarship presents both a unique challenge and promise.
KW - George Price
KW - altruism
KW - art
KW - helical biography
KW - the Price (covariance) equation
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U2 - 10.1007/s10739-011-9269-5
DO - 10.1007/s10739-011-9269-5
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C2 - 21336664
SN - 0022-5010
VL - 44
SP - 671
EP - 691
JO - Journal of the History of Biology
JF - Journal of the History of Biology
IS - 4
ER -