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20 de mai. de 2024 · When John Maynard Smith died on 19 April at the age of 84, one of the last grand evolutionary theorists of the 20th century passed. The example of Charles Darwin has induced intellectually ambitious biologists, many of them in Britain, to search for general formulations by which evolution as a whole, or large domains of evolutionary phenomena, can be understood and explained. One thinks of R ...
25 de mai. de 2024 · The mathematical biologist John Maynard Smith discusses whether honest signalling must always be costly. He notes that it had been shown that "in some circumstances" a signal is reliable only if it is costly.
10 de mai. de 2024 · In The Problems of Biology, however, John Maynard Smith ( 1986) has lucidly sounded a note of caution against this attitude: It is popular nowadays to say that morphogenesis (that is the development of form) is programmed by the genes. I think that this statement, although in a sense true, is unhelpful.
Há 2 dias · John Maynard Smith was awarded the Crafoord Prize for his application of evolutionary game theory in 1999, and fifteen game theorists have won the Nobel Prize in economics as of 2020, including most recently Paul Milgrom and Robert B. Wilson.
28 de mai. de 2024 · The control revolution he has in mind is technological; but, for it to have become possible, three other major transitions (to borrow an apt term from John Maynard Smith and Eörs Szathmáry) had to have occurred first—the emergence of life (or molecular programming) approximately one billion years ago, followed by the emergence of ...
Há 4 dias · Rather different is developmental flexibility: "An animal or plant is developmentally flexible if when it is raised in or transferred to new conditions, it changes in structure so that it is better fitted to survive in the new environment," writes the evolutionary biologist John Maynard Smith.
27 de mai. de 2024 · La economía nos ayuda a entender cómo funcionan los sistemas económicos y cómo podemos mejorar nuestro bienestar y el de los demás a través de políticas económicas adecuadas. Descubre cómo Adam Smith, Karl Marx y John Maynard Keynes revolucionaron la economía. Conoce sus teorías y su impacto en el mundo actual. ¡Aprende más aquí!
