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* Maynard Smith, J. and Szathmáry, E. ( 1999 ) The Origins of Life: From the Birth of Life to the Origin of Language.
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Alan Wolfe summarises this viewpoint, which reject ( s ) any such distinction and argue ( s ) instead for the existence of a continuous liberal understanding that includes both Adam Smith and John Maynard Keynes ...
When instead we discuss human purpose and the meaning of life, Adam Smith and John Maynard Keynes are on the same side.
Evolutionarily stable strategies were defined and introduced by John Maynard Smith and George R. Price in a 1973 Nature paper.
Such was the time taken in peer-reviewing the paper for Nature that this was preceded by a 1972 essay by Maynard Smith in a book of essays titled On Evolution.
Papers in Nature are usually short ; in 1974, Maynard Smith published a longer paper in the Journal of Theoretical Biology.
Maynard Smith explains further in his 1982 book Evolution and the Theory of Games.
Maynard Smith mathematically formalised a verbal argument made by Price, which he read while peer-reviewing Price's paper.
When Maynard Smith realized that the somewhat disorganised Price was not ready to revise his article for publication, he offered to add Price as co-author.
Maynard Smith was jointly awarded the 1999 Crafoord Prize for his development of the concept of evolutionarily stable strategies and the application of game theory to the evolution of behaviour.
Eight game-theorists have won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, and John Maynard Smith was awarded the Crafoord Prize for his application of game theory to biology.
* 1920 – John Maynard Smith, English biologist ( d. 2004 )
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Maynard Smith was instrumental in the application of game theory to evolution and theorized on other problems such as the evolution of sex and signalling theory.
John Maynard Smith was born in London, the son of the surgeon Sidney Maynard Smith, but following his father's death in 1928 the family moved to Exmoor, where he became interested in natural history.
Quite unhappy with the lack of formal science education at Eton College, Maynard Smith took it upon himself to develop an interest in Darwinian evolutionary theory and mathematics, after having read the work of old Etonian J. B. S.
On leaving school, Maynard Smith joined the Communist Party of Great Britain and started studying engineering at Trinity College Cambridge.
Maynard Smith then took a change of career, entering University College London ( UCL ) to study fruit fly genetics under Haldane.
Prior to his death the building housing much of Life Sciences at Sussex was renamed the John Maynard Smith Building, in his honour.
In 1973 Maynard Smith formalised a central concept in evolutionary game theory called the evolutionarily stable strategy ( ESS ), based on a verbal argument by George R. Price.
Maynard Smith published a book entitled The Evolution of Sex which explored in mathematical terms, the notion of the " two-fold cost of sex ".
In his honour, the European Society for Evolutionary Biology has an award for extraordinary young evolutionary biology researchers named The John Maynard Smith Prize.
This is bestowed every 50 years by the Linnean Society of London ; Maynard Smith was one of thirteen co-recipients.
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* Maynard Smith, J. and Szathmáry, E. ( 1997 ) The Major Transitions in Evolution.
* Maynard Smith, J. and Harper, D. ( 2003 ) Animal Signals.
The following year came J. M. Keynes ’ s influential attack the next year on the Versailles Peace Treaty: " The Economic Consequences of the Peace immediately established Maynard as an economist of international eminence ".
* November 5-Joyce Maynard, memoirist and former lover of J. D. Salinger
* Dori J. Maynard ( born 1958 ), President and CEO of the Maynard Institute ( 2008 ); daughter of Robert C. Maynard
* Maynard James " M. J ." Delfino, fictional character from the television show Desperate Housewives, played by Mason Vale Cotton
In January 2010, Maynard came into the spotlight when J. D. Salinger died aged 91.
In 1999, Norton purchased letters written to Joyce Maynard by reclusive author J. D.
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* Dori J. Maynard, the President of the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education in Oakland, California
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