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Here, I will argue that the initial impetus for Price's foray into mathematical population genetics stemmed from a preoccupation with the origins of family, one that was born following a divorce from his wife and the abandonment of their two young girls. What is special about the Price equation is the way in which it associates statistically between two groups, a \u2018mother\u2019 and \u2018daughter\u2019 population. The association need not mean genetic relatedness in the narrow sense of direct descent, and it allows us to see selection working at different levels simultaneously, a fact that was not lost on William Hamilton. Hamilton was one of the few friends who desperately tried to save Price from falling into the abyss of depression and homelessness in the period following the publication of \u2018Selection and covariance\u2019 (Price 1928\n                    <jats:italic>Nature<\/jats:italic>\n                    <jats:bold>227<\/jats:bold>\n                    , 520\u2013521 (\n                    <jats:ext-link xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\" ext-link-type=\"uri\" xlink:href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1038\/227520a0\">doi:10.1038\/227520a0<\/jats:ext-link>\n                    )). 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