<p>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.</p>

Did Darwin Get It Right? (Penguin Science)

Science & Math

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Biological Sciences

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Shaping Life : Genes, Embryos and Evolution

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

Evolution Now a Century after Darwin

McMillan

Did Darwin Get It Right?: Essays on Games, Sex and Evolution

Chapman & Hall

Evolutionary Genetics

Oxford University Press, USA

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