paulsamuel
Registered Senior Member
Dear Evolutionists,
With the greatest possible sadness, I am writing to tell you that we
have just lost one of the greatest minds ever to consider the
subject of biological evolution.* John Maynard Smith passed away
yesterday at home, while sitting in his chair.
John had just finished his latest book (on animal communication, with David
Harper) and has recently been working on various theoretical and empirical
problems, particularly in bacterial population genetics. He had also started
work on a new edition of his book on the Major Transitions in Evolution
(with Eors Szathmary).* He was thinking, working, and helping his
colleagues until the very end.
He was not totally comfortable in the last months of his life
(mostly due to breathing difficulties) but he was not suffering
very badly either.
Professor Maynard Smith is survived by his wife, Sheila, and his
three children, Anthony, Carol and Julian.
Yours,
Joel
Joel R. Peck
Reader in Evolutionary Biology
Centre for the Study of Evolution
School of Life Sciences
University of Sussex
Brighton* BN1 9QG
Phone:* (01273) 678843
Phone: (from outside the UK)* 441273678843
Email:* j.r.peck@sussex.ac.uk
With the greatest possible sadness, I am writing to tell you that we
have just lost one of the greatest minds ever to consider the
subject of biological evolution.* John Maynard Smith passed away
yesterday at home, while sitting in his chair.
John had just finished his latest book (on animal communication, with David
Harper) and has recently been working on various theoretical and empirical
problems, particularly in bacterial population genetics. He had also started
work on a new edition of his book on the Major Transitions in Evolution
(with Eors Szathmary).* He was thinking, working, and helping his
colleagues until the very end.
He was not totally comfortable in the last months of his life
(mostly due to breathing difficulties) but he was not suffering
very badly either.
Professor Maynard Smith is survived by his wife, Sheila, and his
three children, Anthony, Carol and Julian.
Yours,
Joel
Joel R. Peck
Reader in Evolutionary Biology
Centre for the Study of Evolution
School of Life Sciences
University of Sussex
Brighton* BN1 9QG
Phone:* (01273) 678843
Phone: (from outside the UK)* 441273678843
Email:* j.r.peck@sussex.ac.uk