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John Maynard Smith

Evolutionary biologist and geneticist

Died when: 84 years 104 days (1011 months)
Star Sign: Capricorn

 

John Maynard Smith

John Maynard Smith FRS (6 January 1920 – 19 April 2004) was a British theoretical and mathematical 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 with George R. Price, and theorised on other problems such as the evolution of sex and signalling theory.


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