Quote of the day
The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian.
John Maynard Smith
Born: January 6, 1920
Died: April 19, 2004 (aged 84)
Bio: John Maynard Smith was a British theoretical 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.
Known for:
- Evolution and the Theory of Games (1982)
- The Major Transitions in Evolution (1995)
- The Theory of Evolution (1958)
- Animal signals
- The origins of life (1999)