DID DARWIN GET IT RIGHT? Essays on Games, Sex and Evolution.

SMITH, John Maynard.

ISBN 10: 0412019116 / ISBN 13: 9780412019111

Published by Chapman and Hall, 1989., 1988

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8vo, 264pp. A good hardback copy in like dust jacket. Sticker to back inside flap. Previous owner's name.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: DID DARWIN GET IT RIGHT? Essays on Games, Sex and Evolution.
• Publisher: Chapman and Hall, 1989.
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0412019116
• ISBN 13: 9780412019111
• Binding: Hardcover
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

Now in paperback, Did Darwin Get It Right discusses some of the hottest issues in biology today. Its author, the eminently quotable John Maynard Smith, discusses such fascinating conundrums as how life began, whether the brain works like a computer, why most animals and plants reproduce sexually, and how social behavior evolved out of the context of natural selection--a process which would seem to favor selfishness. A humorous and insightful writer, John Maynard Smith has the special ability to convey the excitement of science, its complexity and fascination, without baffling or boring his readers. In these 28 brief and accessible essays, Maynard ranges widely over such issues as science and the media, the birth of sociobiology, the evolution of animal intelligence and the limitations of evolutionary theory. For his work on the evolution of sex, Smith won the Darwin medal from the Royal Society, and he has pioneered the application of game theory to animal behavior.