In article ,
Malcolm  wrote:
>"Joachim Dagg"  wrote in message
>>
>> John Maynard Smith seems to have been about the only one who
>> lived up the the scientific ideal of never ever drawing political or
>> ideological reasoning into his science.
>>
>He was a Communist, but you would never guess from reading his textbooks on
>population genetics.

Perhaps you'd "never guess" it because he left the British
Communist Party in
1956.  A mere 48 years ago.

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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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