This anthology commemorates a most unusual and complex person. Homer William Smith was best known as a renal physiologist whose work ranged from the evolution of the kidney to clinical studies on renal function and disease in man. He also studied and wrote about religion and philosophy, and published two novels, one of which, Kamongo, had rather a surprising success considering that its "plot" ...

John Maynard Smith was one of the most original thinkers in evolutionary biology of the post neo-Darwinian synthesis age. He was able to define new problems with clarity and by doing so open up new research directions. He did this in a number of areas including game theory and evolution, the evolution of sex, animal behavior, evolutionary transitions and molecular evolution. Although he is best...