By the mid 1990s, convinced that the Gaia concept was making inroads with the scientific establishment in England, including the bastion of British neo-Darwinist opposition, Lovelock was increasingly sanguine about Gaia’s prospects for full scientific recognition. Writing to Margulis in May 1995, he described his encounter with a formidable evolutionary theorist, famous for his work on kin selection (the “gene-eyed view” of altruism): I had a meeting with W. D. Hamilton last week – one of the fringe benefits of the Oxford connection. Although he was a kindly and thoughtful man, the meeting was what might have been expected between a geophysiologist and a neodarwinist; we agreed to disagree. Two days later I had a letter from him. In it he said that after much thought it seemed to him that Gaia was after all not inconsistent with Darwin. Where organisms affected their personal environment then the tendency could be inherited and could become extensive, even global. Things move, we have won over Maynard Smith and now perhaps Oxford’s leading neodarwinist also.