John Maynard Smith

One of the things I regret during my tenure blogging is that I started doing "10 questions" too late to get in touch with John Maynard Smith. If you haven't, I highly recommend this interview by Robert Wright from a few years ago. Also, Smith wrote one of the more readable introductory texts on Evolutionary Genetics, as well as pioneering the use of game theory in evolutionary biology, introducing the concept of the ESS.