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.

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