John Maynard Smith

Professor John Maynard Smith{{fn|1}}, F.R.S. (6 January 1920 – 19 April 2004) was a British evolutionary biologist and geneticist. Originally an aeronautical engineer during the Second World War, he then took a second degree in genetics under the great J.B.S. Haldane. Maynard Smith was instrumental in the application of game theory to evolution and theorised on other problems such as the evolution of sex and signalling theory.

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• Maynard Smith, J. (1958). The Theory of Evolution. London, Penguin Books. ISBN 0140204334
• 1993 edn ISBN 0521451280
• Maynard Smith, J. (1972) On Evolution. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 0852242239
• Maynard Smith, J. (1974b) Models in Ecology. Cambridge University Press. ISBN
• Maynard Smith, J. (1978d) The Evolution of Sex. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521293022
• Maynard Smith, J. (ed.) (1981d) Evolution Now. London, Macmillan. ISBN 0716714264
• Maynard Smith, J. (1982d) Evolution and the Theory of Games. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521288843
• Maynard Smith, J. (1986b) The Problems of Biology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0192891987
• Maynard Smith, J. (1988a) Did Darwin Get it Right?: Essays on Games, Sex and Evolution. London, Chapman & Hall. ISBN 0412038218
• Maynard Smith, J. (1989a) Evolutionary Genetics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198502311
• Maynard Smith, J. and Szathmáry, E. (1997) The Major Transitions in Evolution. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 019850294X
• Maynard Smith, J. and Szathmáry, E. The Origins of Life: From the Birth of Life to the Origin of Language. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 019286209X
• Maynard Smith, J. and Harper, D. (2003) Animal Signals. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198526857