Contemporary evolutionary ecology identified several factors that increase inclusive fitness, in addition to kin-selection, such as assortation or homophily, and social synergies triggered by cooperation.

Howe and Manning, in particular, relished the opportunity to “renovise” an outdated or awkward house into a livable setting, saving the house and sometimes money.

why such setting up with corks, straitening with whalebones; why is it but, as a day-net catcheth larks, to make young men stoop unto them?

Lady Buckinghamshire, it may be remarked, was, perhaps, the most notorious gamestress of her day. She actually slept with a pair of pistols and a blunderbuss by her side for the protection of her cherished bank.