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The paper's peer review process led to disharmony between one of the reviewers, John Maynard Smith and Hamilton.

Hamilton thought that Maynard Smith had deliberately kept the paper, which has difficult mathematics, from publication so that Maynard Smith could claim credit for the concept of kin selection in his own paper.

Indeed such was the time taken for peer review that Hamilton published a magazine essay in American Naturalist in 1963.