The Major Transitions in Evolution Quotes

“In living organisms, nucleic acid molecules are the only indefinite hereditary replicators, or at least they were until the invention of language and music.”
― John Maynard Smith, The Major Transitions in Evolution

“Once it is common, cooperation is evolutionarily stable. The problem is how it becomes common in the first place, because defection is also stable.”
― John Maynard Smith, The Major Transitions in Evolution