# John Maynard Smith
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john maynard smith (6 January 1920 – 19 April 2004) was a British theoretical and mathematical evolutionary biologist and geneticist. Originally an aeronautical engineer during the Second World War, he took a second degree in genetics under the biologist J. B. S. Haldane. Maynard Smith was instrumental in the application of game theory to evolution with George R. Price, and theorised on other problems such as the evolution of sex and signalling theory.
The Curse of Game Theory: Why It’s in Your Self-Interest to Exit the Rules of the Game
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Game theory, the mathematical theory of games of strategy, was developed by John von Neumann in several successive stages in 1928 and 1940-41, according to his book “Theory of Games and Economic Behaviour” which he co-authored with Oskar Morgenste…
603. How to Engineer Serendipity in Your Life, Your Organization and Your Community feat. David Cleevely
What are the nuances of organizational design and risk-taking? What are the roles of both curiosity and trust in fostering an environment ripe for innovation? How can you create serendipity intentionally, and harness its power for your organization?
David Cleevely is a British entrepreneur and inte…
377. The Art of Cheating and Deception feat. Dr. Lixing Sun
What’s the difference between a lie and deception? How does cheating show up in nature? And is it always a negative thing?
Dr. Lixing Sun is a professor of animal behavior, ecology, and evolution at Central Washington University. His books, The Liars of Nature and the Nature of Liars: Cheating an…
Why Are You Polycellular?
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False Ideas About Truth - Part 17 - More Questions About Darwinian Evolution
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(1) Question 8. Does the Cambrian Explosion prove Darwin’s theory of evolution?
(2) Darwin predicted that in the fossil record we would find EVIDENCE that life would begin SIMPLY and would progress into BIG DIFFERENCES. But the Cambrian Explosion refutes that prediction and thus DOES N…
Why Some Cells Die So Others Can Live
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When starvation strikes, hundreds of thousands of solitary cellular-slime-mold cells ("social amoebae") assemble into a temporary multicellular body. Roughly one-quarter sacrifice reproduction to construct a dead stalk, allowing the remaining cells to become spores and disperse. Tha…
S1 E1 Remastered: Donald McIntyre on Bitcoin, The Teachings of Tim May & Nick Szabo, and the History of Money
Donald Hugh McIntyre passed in 2025, but is remembered as one of the most insightful polymaths... while his blog Etherplan lives on. The episode came out in the first week of February 2019, ran two hours, and set the genetic code for Bitcoin Takeover podcast.
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00:02:45 – Introduction:…
Eörs Szathmáry - Major Evolutionary Transitions and AGI's Impact (Stewarding the Flame, Episode 7)
Eörs Szathmáry co-developed, with the late John Maynard Smith, the theory of major transitions in evolution - the framework for understanding how life has repeatedly reorganized itself into higher levels of complexity across nearly 4 billion years. He's also a co-author, alongside Viktor Müller and…
How Do Humans Fit into the Story of Life? ~ Jonathan Loh
“What a chimera then is man! What a novelty! What a monster, what a chaos, what a contradiction!” — Blaise Pascal.
No moment in my teaching career has left a deeper impression on me than a biology class I gave in 2018. The topic was evolution and the tree of life. The pupils were ten-year-olds.
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Eörs Szathmáry with David Sloan Wilson - Evolving Alignment Podcast
Eörs Szathmáry is a professor of evolutionary biology at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest and one of the leading theorists of major evolutionary transitions. With John Maynard Smith, he coauthored the landmark 1995 book The Major Transitions in Evolution, which examined the pivotal transitions …
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