John Maynard Smith

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5 total works indexed

1. Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple

   · 1996 · cited 200,687x

2. Bias in meta-analysis detected by a simple, graphical test

   · 1997 · cited 47,804x

3. Colorimetric Method for Determination of Sugars and Related Substances

   · 1956 · cited 41,928x

4. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

   · 2021 · cited 41,733x

5. Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology

   · 2000 · cited 36,361x

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Quotes

• “It is in the nature of science that once a position becomes orthodox it should be subjected to criticism.... It does not follow that, because a position is orthodox, it is wrong.”
• “Тhе сепtгаl роіпt геmаіпs that Darwin provided a theory which predicts that organisms should have parts adapted to ensure their survival and . This has led to the suggestion that life should be defined by the possession of those properties which are needed to ensure evolution by natural selection. That is, entities with the properties of multiplication, variation, and are alive, and entities lacking one or more of those properties are not.”
• “It is an occupational risk of biologists to claim, towards the end of their careers, that the problems which they have not solved are insoluble.”
• “Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection is the only workable explanation that has ever been proposed for the remarkable fact of our own existence, indeed the existence of all life wherever it may turn up in the universe.”
• “Natural selection is the only workable explanation for the beautiful and compelling illusion of 'design' that pervades every living body and every organ. Knowledge of evolution may not be strictly useful in everyday commerce. You can live some sort of life and die without ever hearing the name of Darwin. But if, before you die, you want to understand why you lived in the first place, Darwinism is the one subject that you must study.”
• “The last decade has seen a steady increase in the application of concepts from the theory of games to the study of evolution. Fields as diverse as sex ratio theory, animal distribution, contest behaviour and reciprocal altruism have contributed to what is now emerging as a universal way of thinking about phenotypic evolution.”

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Key facts

Born

( 1920-01-06 ) 6 January 1920, London , England

Died

19 April 2004 (2004-04-19) (aged 84), Lewes , East Sussex , England

Education

Trinity College, Cambridge , University College London

Known for

Game theory , Evolution of sex , Signalling theory

Fields

Evolutionary biologist and geneticist

Institutions

University College London , University of Sussex

Doctoral advisor

J. B. S. Haldane

Doctoral students

Sean Nee

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