In living organisms, nucleic acid molecules are the only indefinite hereditary replicators, or at least they were until the invention of language and music.
John Maynard Smith
In living organisms, nucleic acid molecules are the only indefinite hereditary replicators, or at least they were until the invention of language and music.
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.
