Mathematics without natural history is sterile, but natural history without mathematics is muddled.

Mathematics without natural history is sterile, but natural history without mathematics is muddled.

As an evolutionary biologist, I have learned over the years that most people do not want to see themselves as lumbering robots programmed to ensure the survival of their genes. I don't think they will want to see themselves as digital computers either. To be told by someone with impeccable scientific credentials that they are nothing of the kind can only be pleasing.

Mathematics is so much easier than words mathematics makes things clear that words merely muddle and confuse and mess up.

Societies depend on agreed rules.

Evolutionary game theory is a way of thinking about evolution at the phenotypic level when the fitnesses of particular phenotypes depend on their frequencies in the population.

Language changes very fast.