Editing John Maynard Smith (section)

=== Controversy ===
Another evolutionary biologist, [[W. D. Hamilton|William Donald Hamilton]], harboured a grievance against Maynard Smith for his handling of an article that Hamilton submitted to ''The Journal of Theoretical Biology'' in 1963, which was eventually published as two papers in July 1964.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|last=Segerstråle|first=Ullica Christina Olofsdotter|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/826131713|title=Nature's oracle : the life and work of W.D. Hamilton|date=2013|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-164276-0|location=Oxford|oclc=826131713}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite thesis |title=John Maynard Smith and the Fact(s) of Evolution. A Study of Scientific Working Life in Post War Britain. |url=https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/25695/ |publisher=University of Leeds |date=July 2019 |degree=phd |language=en |first=Helen |last=Piel |access-date=7 April 2023 |archive-date=7 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230407150118/https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/25695/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Maynard Smith acted as a reviewer of the paper after two other reviewers had been unable to understand it, and requested that Hamilton revise it into two parts due to concerns about its accessibility, later describing it as "deeply obscure".<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3">{{Citation |title=John Maynard Smith - Bill Hamilton (36/102) |date=15 March 2017 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ0xkf0kAxg |access-date=2023-04-07 |language=en |archive-date=21 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230421203158/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ0xkf0kAxg |url-status=live }}</ref> In March 1964, Maynard Smith published the article "Group Selection and Kin selection" in ''Nature'', which covered concepts from Hamilton's article.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Smith |first=J. Maynard |date=March 1964 |title=Group Selection and Kin Selection |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/2011145a0 |journal=Nature |language=en |volume=201 |issue=4924 |pages=1145–1147 |doi=10.1038/2011145a0 |bibcode=1964Natur.201.1145S |s2cid=4177102 |issn=1476-4687 |access-date=7 April 2023 |archive-date=7 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230407150115/https://www.nature.com/articles/2011145a0 |url-status=live }}</ref> Although Maynard Smith cited an earlier paper by Hamilton published in the ''American Naturalist'', Hamilton felt Maynard Smith had not given him sufficient credit.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" /> Hamilton also objected to an anecdote included by Maynard Smith in a review published in the ''New Scientist'' in 1976 which implied Maynard Smith's mentor Haldane had understood the concept of Hamilton's inclusive fitness in the 1950s.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3" /> Hamilton replied to the review suggesting that the anecdote was false, but later apologised to Maynard Smith for having doubted it''.''<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" />