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was a British theoretical [|evolutionary biologist], [|geneticist], and latterly [|Emeritus Professor] of [|Biology] at the [|University of Sussex].
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 * [[image:JMS.jpg link="http://www.lifesci.sussex.ac.uk/CSE/members/jms/jms.htm"]] ||~  || **John Maynard Smith**, (January 6, 1920 – April 19, 2004 )

In 1961 John Maynard Smith created a chess machine called SOMA, the Smith One-Move Analyzer, as a challenger of Donald Michie's and Shaun Wylie's early program Machiavelli from 1947-48, of whose method of working he was in ignorance. Later John Maynard Smith built a SOMA-Machiavelli hybrid named SOMAC (SOMA with features taken from the Machiavelli). This machine, when allowed a lookahead of two, has a standard of play equal to that of a mediocre human player ... .

In 1973 Maynard Smith formalized a central concept in [|game theory] called the [|evolutionarily stable strategy] (ESS), based on a verbal argument by [|George R. Price] and published in 1982. || toc =Selected Publications= >
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 * John Maynard Smith (**1958**). //[|The Theory of Evolution]//. [Harmondsworth, Middlesex], Penguin Books.
 * John Maynard Smith, Donald Michie (**1961**). //Machines that play games//. [|New Scientist], 12, 367-9. [|google books]
 * Jack Good, [|A. J. Mayne], John Maynard Smith (eds.) (**1962**). //[|The Scientist Speculates].// [|Heinemann]
 * Donald Michie (**1966**). //Game Playing and Game Learning Automata.// Advances in Programming and Non-Numerical Computation, [|Leslie Fox] (ed.), pp. 183-200. Oxford, Pergamon. Includes Appendix: //Rules of SOMAC// by John Maynard Smith
 * John Maynard Smith and [|George R. Price] (**1973**). //[|The logic of animal conflict]//. [|Nature] 246:15-18
 * John Maynard Smith (**1982**). //[|Evolution and the Theory of Games]//. Cambridge; New York, Cambridge University Press.
 * John Maynard Smith (**1988**). //Games, Sex, and Evolution//. New York, Harvester-Wheatsheaf.
 * John Maynard Smith (**1989**). //Evolutionary Genetics//. Oxford; New York, Oxford University Press.
 * John Maynard Smith (**1992**). //[|Byte-sized evolution]//. [|Nature] 355, 772-773
 * John Maynard Smith (**1996**). //[|The games lizards play]//. [|Nature] 380, 198-199
 * [|Manfred D. Laubichler], [|Edward H. Hagen] and [|Peter Hammerstein] (**2005**). //The Strategy Concept and John Maynard Smith’s Influence on Theoretical Biology//. [|pdf]
 * [|Karl Sigmund] (**2005**). //John Maynard Smith and Evolutionary Game Theory//. Interim Report IR-05-076, [|pdf]

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 * [|John Maynard Smith from Wikipedia]
 * [|The Mathematics Genealogy Project - John Maynard Smith]
 * [|John Maynard Smith from Centre for the Study of Evolution - University of Sussex]
 * [|Modern Theorist Biographies - Section 1]
 * John Maynard Smith - Seven Wonders of the World, [|YouTube] Video

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