John Maynard Smith

John Maynard Smith, Professor of Biology at the University of Sussex, is the author of On Evolution, The Evolution of Sex, Evolution and the Theory of Games, and, with Eörs Szathmáry, The Major Transitions in Evolution. (December 2000)

From the Review

December 21, 2000: The Cheshire Cat's DNA

The Century of the Gene by Evelyn Fox Keller

February 1, 1996: Language and Evolution (letter)

November 30, 1995: Genes, Memes, & Minds

Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life by Daniel C. Dennett

March 2, 1995: Life at the Edge of Chaos?

Darwinism Evolving by David J. Depew, by Bruce H. Weber

January 14, 1993: 'Confusion Over Evolution': An Exchange

May 14, 1992: Taking a Chance on Evolution

Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould

Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould

Toward a New Philosophy of Biology: Observations of an Evolutionist by Ernst Mayr

April 25, 1991: Dinosaur Dilemmas

The Dinosauria edited by David B. Weishampel, edited by Peter Dodson, edited by Halszka Osmólska

Dinosaurs, Spitfires, and Sea Dragons by Chris McGowan

September 27, 1990: Triumphs of Colonialism

The Ants by Bert Hölldobler, by Edward O. Wilson

June 14, 1990: 'The Emperor's New Mind': An Exchange

May 31, 1990: Are We Robots? (letter)

March 15, 1990: What Can't the Computer Do?

The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics by Roger Penrose

November 6, 1986: Natural Selection of Culture?

Culture and the Evolutionary Process by Robert Boyd, by Peter J. Richerson

May 13, 1982: Storming the Fortress

The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance by Ernst Mayr

The Possible and the Actual by François Jacob

Books by John Maynard Smith

The Origins of Life: From the Birth of Life to the Origin of Language (1999)
Evolutionary Genetics (1998)
The Major Transitions in Evolution (1995)
Did Darwin Get It Right: Essays on Games, Sex, and Evolution (1989)
Evolutionary Genetics (1989)
The Problems of Biology (1986)
Evolution and the Theory of Games (1982)
The Evolution of Sex (1978)
The Theory of Evolution (1975)
Models in Ecolog (1974)
On Evolution (1972)
Mathematical Ideas in Biology (1968)