John Maynard Smith
John Maynard Smith
John Maynard Smith FRSwas a British theoretical evolutionary biologist and geneticist. Originally an aeronautical engineer during the Second World War, he took a second degree in genetics under the well-known biologist 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...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth6 January 1920
John Maynard Smith quotes about
science action theory
Scientific theories tell us what is possible; myths tell us what is desirable. Both are needed to guide proper action.
games fields biology
Paradoxically, it has turned out that game theory is more readily applied to biology than to the field of economic behavior for which it was originally designed
evolution natural mathematics
Mathematics without natural history is sterile, but natural history without mathematics is muddled.
thinking games levels
Evolutionary game theory is a way of thinking about evolution at the phenotypic level when the fitnesses of particular phenotypes depend on their frequencies in the population.