The Theory of Evolution
 Good, but today slightly dated.: Although I do not always agree with his views, I quite like Maynard Smith, so I rushed to buy this book which at its price seemed a real gem. Well, just to caution the reader that while it is classic Maynard Smith, the [... more]
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The Evolutionist: The Struggle For Darwin's Soul
From Amazon.com: Evolution is a fact: of that there can be no dispute. But, writes Richard Morris in this lively overview of modern biology, scientists have been arguing about most other aspects of Darwinian thought for generations, and the battle is [... more]
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The Investor's Anthology: Original Ideas from the ...
From Amazon.com: The Investor's Anthology: Original Ideas from the Industry's Greatest Minds is an enlightening collection of poignant observations from more than 50 respected individuals who have weighed in over the years on assorted financial matters. [... more]
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Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanins of Life
From Amazon.com: One of the best descriptions of the nature and implications of Darwinian evolution ever written, it is firmly based in biological information and appropriately extrapolated to possible applications to engineering and cultural evolution. [... more]
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Animal Signals
Author: The late John Maynard Smith Author: David Harper Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 590 EAN: 9780198526858 ISBN: 0198526857 Number Of Pages: 176 Publication Date: 2003-11 [... more]
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From Gaia to Selfish Genes: Selected Writings in the ...
From planetary entity to mighty molecules: Few scientific ideas have gained as much interest and acclaim as James Lovelock's suggestion of Gaia - the entire Earth views as a single organism. Connie Barlow's own reaction is as good an example as any, [... more]
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Why We Age: What Science Is Discovering about the Body's ...
From Amazon.com: Before we know why we age, we need to know how we age. According to Steven Austad, we should blame the process on rusting and cooking. Oxygen causes our cells to rust, and glucose causes some of our tissues to take on the qualities of [... more]
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Mapping the Mind
From Amazon.com: In the last decades of the 20th century, scientists have come to believe that the human brain is almost completely modular. Every bit of the brain does something in particular, and surprisingly specific abilities, memories, and responses [... more]
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Why Men Won't Ask for Directions: The Seductions of ...
Thought-provoking and entertaining: The title of this book gives an excellent preview of how this book first catches your attention, "Why Men Won't Ask For Directions", and then cogently discusses the weaknesses of sociobiology, "The [... more]
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The Origins of Life: From the Birth of Life to the ...
From Amazon.com: Life is a long, strange trip, and in The Origins of Life, John Maynard Smith and Eörs Szathmáry blast you through its three-and-a-half-billion-year history at breathtaking pace. Life, we learn, is information, transmitted in [... more]
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Shaping Life
Total misunderstanding: Although I certainly enjoy most books and articles by Maynard Smith, this book was a tremendous disappointment. He argues against self-organization in biology in a very bad way. Instead of a good argument, one finds a subjective, [... more]
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Evolution and the Theory of Games
Games: All you want to know about theory of games Classic Book on Evolutionary Survival Strategies: This book is a classic. It introduced the concept of Evolutionarily Stable Strategy (ESS), and applied it to many important biological problems. [... more]
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