Item GS/8/9/6/25 - Photograph of John Maynard Smith

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Black and white photograph of John Maynard Smith

Admin History: John Maynard Smith (6 January 1920 – 19 April 2004) 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. Maynard Smith was instrumental in the application of game theory to evolution and theorised on other problems such as the evolution of sex and signalling theory.