Re: Most important paper in evolutionary biology


Perplexed in Peoria wrote:
> "Perplexed in Peoria" <jimmenegay@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:dg2b86$e5i$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > I would like to solicit nominations for a different title - the
> > most important paper in evolutionary biology within the past
> > 50 years. The criterion 'most important' is deliberately left
> > vague, but I am thinking in terms of 'biggest impact'.
>
> The evolutionary biology paper with the largest impact outside of
> biology may well have been this one:
>
> Axelrod, R. & Hamilton, W. D.
> The Evolution of Cooperation
> Science 211, 1390-6 (1981)

And, stretching the rules just a little bit more, the paper by
an evolutionary biologist which had the biggest impact on
science is possibly this one:

Robert M. May
Simple Mathematical Models with Very Complicated Dynamics
Nature, Vol. 261, p.459, June 10 1976.
http://organic.usc.edu:8376/~dyweb/reference/01May76.pdf

Never heard of it? Well, have you heard of "Chaos Theory"?
This is the paper that started the bandwagon.


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