Did Darwin get it right? : essays on games, sex, and evolution
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Did Darwin get it right? : essays on games, sex, and evolution
（Penguin books）
Penguin, 1993
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Originally published: [New York] : Chapman and Hall, 1989
Includes index
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John Maynard Smith is one of the most eminent of living evolutionary biologists, and leader of the school of reductionist geneticists that includes Richard Dawkins. this book collects together the best of his elegant essays, many of them originally published as book reviews in the "New York review of books". He is an essayist of the calibre of Stephen Jay Gould, and coming from the opposite end of the biological spectrum, a worthy complement and opponent of Gould's.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Science, ideology and myth: how to win the Nobel prize
- storming the fortress
- symbolism and chance
- science and the media
- molecules are not enough
- science, ideology and myth. Part 2 On human nature: the birth of sociobiology
- models of cultural and genetic change
- constraints on human behaviour
- biology and the behaviour of man
- tinkering
- boy or girl
- genes and memes
- natural selection of culture?. Part 3 Did Darwin get it right?: palaeontology at the high table
- current controversies in evolutionary biology
- did Darwin get it right?
- do we need a new evolutionary paradigm?. Part 4 Games, sex and evolution: why sex?
- the limitations of evolution theory
- the evolution of animal intelligence
- evolution and the theory of games. Part 5 The laws of the game: the counting problem
- understanding science
- matchsticks, brains and curtain rings
- hypercycles and the origin of life
- popper's world
- rottenness is all.
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