John Maynard Smith is best known for his use of mathematical analyses in biology. Trained as an engineer and then as a biologist, Smith applied game theory to animal behavior and found that although ...

One of the most renowned and influential evolutionary biologists of his generation, John Maynard Smith, died of lung cancer on April 19, at the age of 84. Maynard Smith was probably most widely known ...

STRIMAI copy 39088020376125 purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Contents Introduction to the Canto edition -- Adaptation -- Theory of natural selection -- Heredity -- Weismann, ...

The definition of life -- Heredity -- Sex, recombination, and the levels of life -- The pattern of nature -- Problems of evolutionary biology -- Stability and control -- Behaviour -- The brain and ...