In article ,
Joachim Dagg  wrote:
>What was new to me was the imression that (unlike
>Lewontin, Gould etc.) Maynard Smith never let any of this into his
>science.

Those interested in how his early Marxism may or may not have influenced his
work, and how he felt about the connections others tried to make between
their political world-views and biology, should read what Maynard Smith
himself said about this.

His essay "Molecules are not enough", chapter 5, pages 30-38 in
his collection
"Did Darwin Get It Right? Essays on Games, Sex and Evolution" (Chapman and
Hall, New York, 1989) is a review of Lewontin and Levins's "The Dialectical
Biologist".  It has much to say on these subjects and is, characteristically,
generous in tone.  It is a reprint of a book review first published in the
London Review of Books in February, 1986.

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Joe Felsenstein         joe{at}removethispart.gs.washington.edu
 Department of Genome Sciences and Department of Biology,
 University of Washington, Box 357730, Seattle, WA 98195-7730 USA
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