A life both kind and strange

摘要

The population geneticist George Price (1922-75) is an exception to the rule that scientists' lives make for dull reading. In The Price of Altruism, science historian Oren Harman lays bare the colour and pathos of Price's varied life, demonstrating that this irascible, unpredictable and self-centred man is worth a full-scale biography for his science as well as his psychopathology.