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John Maynard Smith è stato un biologo e genetista inglese.

Durante la seconda guerra mondiale fu un ingegnere aeronautico. In seguito si è laureato in Scienze Biologiche specializzandosi in Zoologia e Genetica presso l'University College London, dove è stato allievo di Haldane. È uno dei padri fondatori della University of Sussex, dove ha insegnato per diversi anni.

Ha contribuito allo sviluppo di diverse teorie di biologia evoluzionistica, come la teoria dei giochi applicata all'evoluzione, l'evoluzione del sesso, ed altre. Ha ricevuto la medaglia Darwin nel 1986, il Premio Balzan nel 1991 per la genetica e l'evoluzione, la Linnean Medal nel 1995, la Royal Medal nel 1997, il premio Kyōto per le scienze di base nel 2001, la medaglia Darwin-Wallace nel 2008. Wikipedia  

✵ 6. Gennaio 1920 – 19. Aprile 2004
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“La matematica senza la storia naturale è sterile, ma la storia naturale senza la matematica è confusa.”

John Maynard Smith

Origine: Citato in AA.VV., Il libro dell'ecologia, traduzione di Roberto Sorgo, Gribaudo, 2019, p. 48. ISBN 9788858024362

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John Maynard Smith: Frasi in inglese

“Natural selection is the only workable explanation for the beautiful and compelling illusion of 'design' that pervades every living body and every organ. Knowledge of evolution may not be strictly useful in everyday commerce. You can live some sort of life and die without ever hearing the name of Darwin. But if, before you die, you want to understand why you lived in the first place, Darwinism is the one subject that you must study.”

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John Maynard Smith libro The Theory of Evolution

Origine: The Theory of Evolution (1958), p. xvi.

“The theory of games was first formalised by Von Neumann & Morgenstern (1953) in reference to human economic behaviour. Since that time, the theory has undergone extensive development… Sensibly enough, a central assumption of classical game theory is that the players will behave rationally, and according to some criterion of self-interest. Such an assumption would clearly be out of place in an evolutionary context. Instead, the criterion of rationality is replaced by that of population dynamics and stability, and the criterion of self-interest by Darwinian fitness.”

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John Maynard Smith libro Evolution and the Theory of Games

Origine: Evolution and the Theory of Games (1973), p. 1-2.

“It is an occupational risk of biologists to claim, towards the end of their careers, that the problems which they have not solved are insoluble.”

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John Maynard Smith (1988) Games, sex and evolution. p. 249.

“Game theory concepts were first explicitly applied in evolutionary biology by Lewontin (1961). His approach, however, was to picture a species as playing a game against nature, and to seek strategies which minimised the probability of extinction. A similar line has been taken by Slobodkin & Rapoport (1974). In contrast, here we picture members of a population as playing games against each other, and consider the population dynamics and equilibria which can arise.”

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John Maynard Smith libro Evolution and the Theory of Games

Origine: Evolution and the Theory of Games (1973), p. 2.

“The last decade has seen a steady increase in the application of concepts from the theory of games to the study of evolution. Fields as diverse as sex ratio theory, animal distribution, contest behaviour and reciprocal altruism have contributed to what is now emerging as a universal way of thinking about phenotypic evolution.”

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John Maynard Smith libro Evolution and the Theory of Games

Origine: Evolution and the Theory of Games (1973), p. vii.

“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”

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John Maynard Smith libro Evolution and the Theory of Games

Origine: Evolution and the Theory of Games (1973), p. vii.

“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.”

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John Maynard Smith libro Evolution and the Theory of Games

Origine: Evolution and the Theory of Games (1973), p. 1.

“It is in the nature of science that once a position becomes orthodox it should be suggested to criticism…. It does not follow that, because a position is orthodox, it is wrong.”

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(1976) Group Selection. Quarterly Review of Biology 51, 277-283.

“Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection is the only workable explanation that has ever been proposed for the remarkable fact of our own existence, indeed the existence of all life wherever it may turn up in the universe.”

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John Maynard Smith libro The Theory of Evolution

Origine: The Theory of Evolution (1958), p. xv.

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