John Maynard Smith, English biologist and geneticist (born 1920)

John Maynard Smith

English biologist and geneticist (1920–2004)

John Maynard Smith was a British theoretical and mathematical evolutionary biologist and geneticist. Originally an aeronautical engineer during the Second World War, he took a second degree in genetics under the biologist J. B. S. Haldane. Maynard Smith was instrumental in the…