John Maynard Smith Prize
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The John Maynard Smith Prize is a prize given by the European Society for Evolutionary Biology
on odd years to an outstanding young researcher. It was first awarded in 1997 and is named after the evolutionary biologist John Maynard Smith
(1920–2004).
European Society for Evolutionary Biology
The European Society for Evolutionary Biology was founded in 1987. It is publishing the Journal of Evolutionary Biology, organises meetings and biannually awards a John Maynard Smith Prize.As of 2007 its president is Isabelle Olivieri....
on odd years to an outstanding young researcher. It was first awarded in 1997 and is named after the evolutionary biologist John Maynard Smith
John Maynard Smith
John Maynard Smith,His surname was Maynard Smith, not Smith, nor was it hyphenated. F.R.S. was a British theoretical evolutionary biologist and geneticist. Originally an aeronautical engineer during the Second World War, he took a second degree in genetics under the well-known biologist J.B.S....
(1920–2004).
List of winners
| Year | Awarded to | For |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | Marie-Charlotte Anstett | Facilitation and constraints in the evolution of mutualism |
| 1999 | Nicolas Galtier | Non stationary models of nucleotide substitution and the evolution of base composition |
| 2001 | Alexander Badyaev | Paradox of rapid evolution of sexual size dimorphism: the role of ontogeny and maternal effects |
| 2003 | Patricia Beldade | The genetic basis of phenotypic variation: evolution and development of butterfly wing patterns |
| 2005 | Daven Presgraves | Speciation genes & selfish genes in Drosophila |
| 2007 | Andy Gardner |