Mathematician:John Maynard Smith

Mathematician
English theoretical evolutionary biologist and geneticist.

Originally an aeronautical engineer during the Second World War.

Instrumental in the application of game theory to evolution.

Nationality
English

History

 * Born: 6 January 1920 in London, England
 * Died: 19 April 2004 in Lewes, East Sussex, England

Publications

 * 1958: The Theory of Evolution
 * 1968: Mathematical Ideas in Biology
 * 1972: On Evolution
 * 1973: The Logic of Animal Conflict (with )
 * 1974: Models in Ecology
 * 1978: The Evolution of Sex
 * 1981: Evolution Now (as editor)
 * 1982:
 * 1986: The Problems of Biology
 * 1988: Did Darwin Get it Right?: Essays on Games, Sex and Evolution
 * 1989: Evolutionary Genetics
 * 1997: The Major Transitions in Evolution (with )
 * 1999: The Origins of Life: From the Birth of Life to the Origin of Language (with )
 * 2003: Animal Signals (with )