# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-maynard-smith
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:59:18.995Z

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description: "John Maynard Smith 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."
tagline: "British theoretical evolutionary biologist and geneticist (1920-2004)"
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birthDate: "1920-01-06"
deathDate: "2004-04-19"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump