John Maynard Smith

Evolution and the Theory of Games

This study aimed to determine the roles and responsibilities of stakeholders in decision-making, research, policy-making, and the implementation of an adaptation plan, with a co...

The Logic of Animal Conflict

Fertility, mating behaviour and sexual selection inDrosophila Subobscura

Evolution and the Theory of Games

In this 1982 book, the theory of games, first developed to analyse economic behaviour, is modified so that it can be applied to evolving populations. John Maynard Smith's concep...

Mathematical Ideas in Biology

This is a lucid introduction to some of the mathematical ideas which are useful to biologists. Professor Maynard Smith introduces the reader to the ways in which biological prob...

Group Selection and Kin Selection

The hitch-hiking effect of a favourable gene

Summary When a selectively favourable gene substitution occurs in a population, changes in gene frequencies will occur at closely linked loci. In the case of a neutral polymorph...

The hitch-hiking effect of a favourable gene

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“Haldane's Dilemma” and the Rate of Evolution