The 1993 Kyoto Prize Workshops

Behavior, Ecology, and Evolution: Inclusive Fitness in the Real World

William Donald Hamilton

/　　Evolutionary Biologist

Basic Sciences

Biological Sciences（Evolution, Behavior, Ecology, Environment）

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1993

11 /12 Fri

13:10 - 17:30

Place： Kyoto International Conference Hall

Address：Takaragaike, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-0001 Japan

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Program

13:10

Opening
Greetings	Toyomi Inamori; Managing Director, The Inamori Foundation
Greetings	Heisuke Hironaka; Chairman, the Kyoto Prize Committee in Basic Sciences; Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University
Introduction of the Laureate	Toshitaka Hidaka; Chairman, the Kyoto Prize Screening Committee in Basic Sciences; Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University

13:25

Commemorative Lecture	William Donald Hamilton; Laureate in Basic Science “Sex, Health and Social Behavior: Search for a Unifying Theory”

14:15

Lecture	Shigeyuki Aoki; Professor, General Education Program, Rissho University “Aphid Societies: Open or Closed”

14:40

Lecture	Yoshiaki Ito; Professor, School of Arts and Science, Okinawa University “Origin of Multi-Queen colonies in Eusocial Wasps: Lessons From The Genus Ropalidia”

15:05

Lecture	Norio Yamamura; Assistant Professor, Saga Medial School “Conflict and its Resolution between Relatives”

15:30

Intermission

15:40

Lecture	Youko Yamaguchi; Researcher, Hokkaido Forestry Research Institute “Hamilton’s Sex Raito Theory: Evidence and Extensions”

16:05

Lecture	Yasuhiro Nakashima; Research Fellow, Faculty of Science, Kyoto University “Sex Change; Theories and Facts”

16:30

Lecture	Tetsukazu Yahara; Associate professor, Department of Biology, University of Tokyo “Evolution of Selfing and Agamospermy in Flowering Plants”

16:55

Lecture	Yoh Iwasa; Member, the Kyoto Prize Screening Committee in Basic Sciences; Professor, Faculty of Science, Kyushu University “The Evolution of the Number of Sexes”

17:20

Question and Answer

17:30

Closing

Laureates

William Donald Hamilton

Evolutionary Biologist

An evolutionary biologist who proposed the concept of “inclusive fitness,” to explain the evolution of altruistic behavior in animals that had been a persistent dilemma since Darwin’s time. He beautifully revealed that an individual can increase the number of descendants carrying its own genes by helping and raising its own kin. He also gave a new aspect to the theory of the sex ratio, whereby a mother manipulates the sex of the eggs she lays in order to maximize her own inclusive fitness. His extremely cogent ideas had a revolutionary influence on the whole field of biological sciences.

＊This field then was Field of Biological Sciences (Heredity, Development, Evolution, Ecology).

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date: Friday, November 12, 1993
place: Kyoto International Conference Hall
Coordinator/Chairperson: Eiji Kuno (Member, Kyoto Prize Committee in Basic Sciences; Professor, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyoto University)