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56 R. Dawkins, ‘Hierarchical organization: a candidate principle for ethology’, in P. P. G. Bateson and R. A. Hinde, eds, Growing Points in Ethology (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1976), pp. 7–54.

  57 Konrad Lorenz, On Aggression, translated by Marjorie Latzke (London, Methuen, 1964); first published in German as Das sogenannte Böse – ‘the so-called evil’ – in 1963. Robert Ardrey, The Territorial Imperative: A Personal Inquiry into the Animal Origins of Property and Nations (London: Collins, 1967), and The Social Contract: A Personal Inquiry into the Evolutionary Sources or Order and Disorder (London, Collins, 1970).

  58 George C. Williams, Adaptation and Natural Selection (Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1966).

  59 Daniel C. Dennett, Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking (New York, Norton, 2013).

  60 John Maynard Smith, The Theory of Evolution (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1993; first published London, Penguin, 1958).

  61 I suspect him of being the original source of a widely circulated anecdote about the film star Diana Dors. She and he came from the same Wiltshire town and were childhood friends. Her real surname was not Dors but Fluck. She was invited back to open some fête or other, and the vicar, thinking to introduce her by the name the locals would have known, genially asked them to welcome the lovely ‘Diana . . . Clunt’.