Quote of the day
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
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)