John Maynard Smith
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Professor John Maynard Smith (January 6, 1920 – April 19, 2004) was a British evolutionary biologist and geneticist.
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- "It is in the nature of science that once a position becomes orthodox it should be suggested to criticism.... It does not follow that, because a position is orthodox, it is wrong."
- (1976) Group Selection. Quarterly Review of Biology 51, 277-283
- "Paradoxically, it has turned out that game theory is more readily applied to biology than to the field of economic behavior for which it was originally designed"[citation needed]