“George Prices’s Contributions to Evolutionary Genetics”, 1995-08 (; backlinks):
[see 1995] George Price studied evolutionary genetics for ~7 years 1967–7197450ya. During that brief period Price made 3 lasting contributions to evolutionary theory; these were:
the Price Equation, a profound insight into the nature of selection and the basis for the modern theories of kin and group selection; (2) the theory of games and animal behavior, based on the concept of the evolutionarily stable strategy; and (3) the modern interpretation of Fisher’s fundamental theorem of natural selection, Fisher’s theorem being perhaps the most cited and least understood idea in the history of evolutionary genetics.
This paper summarizes Price’s contributions and briefly outlines why, toward the end of his painful intellectual journey, he chose to focus his deep humanistic feelings and sharp, analytical mind on abstract problems in evolutionary theory.