John Maynard Smith - Did Darwin Get It Right? Essays on Games, Sex and Evolution

Adaptationist Programme, 87-8

Alexander, R., 46, 89, 91

Analog Computers, 232-3

Aquinas, 9, 12

Aristotle, 8, 12

Attenborough, D., 26

Axelrod, R., 197

Baboons, 198, 212-14

Bateson, W., 12

Bauplans, 154-6

Bean-bag Genetics, 13-14

Bellamy, D., 26

Bernal, J.D., 44-5

Bernal Lecture, 2

Boltzmann, L., 252-3

Boyd, R., 114-21, 259

Buffon, G.L., 9

Burke, James, 29

Cain, A.J., 135

Calculus, 6

Canalization, 127

Cardano, J., 20

Cavalli-Sforza, L.L., 62-7, 76-7, 117, 259

Chagnon, N., 70, 91

Chargaff, E., 3

Charles worth, B., 142

Charnov, E., 98-104, 259

Chetverikov, S.S., 13

Chinese Science, 17-18

Chomsky, N., 58

Cladism, 133-4, 158

Creationism, 25

Crick, F.H.C., 3, 5, 6, 48

Cuvier, G., 12

Darlington, CD., 110, 115

Darwin, C, 9, 10, 13, 20, 23, 24, 27, 39, 43-6, 94-5, 114, 127, 152-3, 156-57, 165, 175

Dawkins, R., 28, 35, 55, 59, 77, 105-13, 255, 259

Demographic transition, 65

Determinism, 245-8, 251

Developmental Constraints, 142-3, 151-2, 159-60

de Vries, H., 11

Dialectics, 34-7

Dickemann, M., 91

Dissipative Structures, 254

DNA, 4-7, 34, 49, 60, 107-9, 167, 184, 189, 255

transfer in prokaryotes, 172

Dodzhansky, Th., 8

Dorze, 15-16, 21, 40-2

Double Helix, 3-7

Dover, G., 128

Drift, genetic 188

Drosophila, 175-6

Eccles, J.C., 248-9

Eigen, M., 130, 225-30, 238-42, 260

Einstein, A., 43, 245, 251, 256

Eldredge, N., 11, 131

Entropy, 253

ESS, 56, 74, 194-7, 200, 207-15

Essentialism, 8-10, 12 {262}

Eukaryotes, 172-3

Extinctions, 129-30, 185

Feedback, delayed, 226

Feldman, M.W., 62-7, 76-7, 117, 259

Fermat, P. de, 20

Ferrari, L., 20

Feynman, R., 29

Fincham, J., 127

Fischer, E., 103

Fisher, R.A., 8, 13, 14, 55, 99-101, 135, 143, 177, 203-4

Fox, S., 158

Franklin, R., 3, 5

Free Will, 100, 248-9

Galapagos Islands, 10

Galton, F., 13

Gambling, 20-1

Genetic Code, origin of, 241

Genetic Determinism, 82-3, 109-10

Gilbert, L., 214

Golschmidt, R., 35, 134-5, 146

Gorczynski, G.M., 160

Gould, S.J., 11, 21, 28, 88, 93-7, 125-30, 131, 134, 146, 148, 154, 259

Group Selection, 54, 106, 186

Gruber, H.E., 153

Guardian, the, 21, 24

Hadamard, J., 247

Haldane, J.B.S., 13, 14, 22, 26, 27, 32, 55, 88, 96, 110, 144, 187, 192, 247

Hallam, A., 130

Hamilton, W.D., 55, 101, 106-7, 197, 204

Hegel, G.W.F., 36, 37

Hennig, W., 133-4

Hermaphroditism, 102-3, 173-4

Hessen, B., 45

Hierarchies, 127

Himmelfarb, G., 11

Ho, M.W., 160, 161, 260

Hopeful Monster, 134-6, 153

Homosexuality, 39-40

Hull, D., 133

Huxley, J., 12, 22

Huxley, T.H., 12

Huygens, C., 20

Hybrid Vigour, 166-7

Hypercycles, 237-43

I Ching, 17-19, 41

Incest Avoidance, 58-9, 85

Inclusive Fitness, 107

Infanticide, 91

Isomorphism, 42, 232

Jones, J.S., 126

Jones, Peter, 27

Kimura, M., 161, 188

Kin Selection, 192-3

Kitcher, P., 86-92, 259

Kuhn, T., 46-8, 244

Kummer, J., 212-13

Lack, D, 105

Lakatos, I., 44

Lamarckism, 24, 31-2, 49, 180, 257

Lande, R., 136

Language, evolution of, 65-6

Laplace, P., 245, 251

Lawlor, L., 215

Leach, E., 76

Leibnitz, G.W., 6

Levins, R., 30-8, 258

Levi-Strauss, C., 58

Lewontin, R.C., 30-8, 69, 88, 207, 258

Linnaeus, 9, 12

Lions, 55-6

Lumsden, C.J., 57, 67-78, 80, 117, 259 {263}

Lyell, C, 12

Lysenko, T.D., 31-2, 38, 59, 159

Macaulay, T.B., 11

Malthus, T.R., 45, 114

Mammal-like Reptiles, 138-40

Marxism, 30-8, 44-5

Matsuno, K., 157,

Maxwell, J.C., 252

Mayr, E., 8-14, 35, 133, 146, 161, 258

Medawar, P.B. 24, 28, 96

Memes, 108

Mendel, G., 4, 10

Mendel's laws, 60, 119

Mendelians, 10-11, 47-8

Miller, Jonathan, 26

Mimicry, 159-60

Modern Synthesis, 10-11

Molecular Drive, 128

Molecular Genetics 36

Moment, B.G., 224

Monod, J., 50

Morgan, E., 40

Morgan, T.H., 12

Muller, H.J., 142

Mutation, 10-11, 20, 151, 166-7, 181

rate of 182-4

Myth, 21, 39-50

Nash Equilibrium, 195-6

Needham, J., 17-18

Nelson, G.J., 158

Newton, I., 4, 6, 45, 251, 253

Oparin, A.I., 32

Origin of Life, 158, 237-42, 249

Origin of Species, 12

Packer, C., 198, 213

Pandas, 93

Pangloss's Theorem, 88

Parker, G.A., 210-11, 214

Parthenogenesis, 166, 168-71, 186

Pascal, B., 20

Pauling, L., 4, 7

Pearson, K., 38, 47-8, 59

Piaget, J., 75-6

Platnick, N., 158

Pollard, J.W., 160

Popper, K., 43-4, 46, 96, 244-9, 260

Price, G.R., 204-5

Prigogine, I., 250-7, 260

Prisoner's Dilemma, 196

Probability, propensity theory of, 247

Prokaryotes, 172

Punctuationism, 11, 24, 125-7, 131-6, 148-54

Queues, 198-200

Randomness, 15, 19

Raup, D., 142

Reciprocal Altruism, 197-8

Red Queen Hypothesis, 133, 168, 183, 185

Richerson, D., 114-21, 259

RNA, 237-42

Rorschach Test, 17

Rotifers, 168

Saunders, P.T., 159, 161, 260

Schuster, P., 238-42

Seilacher, A., 130

Sex,

determination, 100, 104

differences, 84-5, 173

evolution of, 165-73

Sex Ratio, 98-101, 174-5, 203-4

Sexual Selection, 175-8

Shaw, G.B., 21, 40, 42

Simpson, G.G., 125, 151

Slijper, E.J., 135

Smith, Don, 39-40, 42

Snow, C.P., 225 {264}

Social Contract Game, 199-201

Species, 8-10, 126-7

species selection, 128-9, 137-42, 146, 154, 168, 186

variation in space, 152

Sperber, D., 15-17, 40-2

Stanley, S.M., 11, 131, 132, 149

Steele, E.J., 24, 25, 160

Stengers, I., 250-7, 260

Stern., 159

Structuralism, 16

Sumner, J.B., 153

Sunday Times, 24

Symbolism, 15-21, 40-2

Teilhard de Chardin, 94

Television, 22-8

Thermodynamics, 157, 257

Thomson, K.S., 135-6

Times, the, 24

Tools, evolution of, 66

Trivers, R.L., 197

Turing, A.M., 159, 222, 256

Van Valen, L., 133, 183

Vavilov, N.I., 159

Vrba, E., 129, 158, 161

Waddington, C.H., 75, 82, 127

Wake, D., 126

Wallace, A.R., 10, 13, 45, 94, 114

War of Attrition, 209-10

Watson, J.D., 3-7, 48, 258

Weismann A., 13, 189

Wells, H.G., 22

Werren, J., 101

Wicken, J.S., 157

Wiley, R.H., 198

Williams, G.C., 171, 185, 186

Williamson, P., 150

Wilson, E.O., 46, 53, 57, 67-78, 81-5, 89-91, 117, 259

Winkler, R., 225-30, 260

Wittgenstein, L., 230

Wolpert, L., 219, 224

Woolf, B., 36

Wright, S., 13, 14, 137, 143-6

Wynne-Edwards, V.C., 54-5, 106

X-ray crystallography, 3, 6

Yanomamo Indians, 70

Zhabotinsky's Reaction, 254-5

By the same author

The Theory of Evolution (Penguin Books, 1956)

The Evolution of Sex (Cambridge University Press, 1978)

Evolution and the Theory of Games (Cambridge University Press, 1982)

The Problems of Biology (Oxford University Press, 1986)

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