The John Maynard Smith Prize is a prize given by the European Society for Evolutionary Biology on odd years to an outstanding young researcher. It was first awarded in 1997 and is named after the evolutionary biologist John Maynard Smith (1920–2004).

List of winners Source: European Society for Evolutionary Biology Year Awarded to For 1997 Marie-Charlotte Anstett Facilitation and constraints in the evolution of mutualism 1999 Nicolas Galtier Non stationary models of nucleotide substitution and the evolution of base composition 2001 Alexander Badyaev Paradox of rapid evolution of sexual size dimorphism: the role of ontogeny and maternal effects 2003 Patricia Beldade The genetic basis of phenotypic variation: evolution and development of butterfly wing patterns 2005 Daven Presgraves Speciation genes & selfish genes in Drosophila 2007 Andy Gardner The evolution of spite 2009 Tanja Schwander Evolution of genetic caste determination in social insects; Ben Sadd - Junior fellowship 2011 Rowan Barrett The genetics of adaptation to changing environments; Emma Hine - Junior fellowship 2012 Tanja Stadler Looking at the present to learn about the past; Daniel Matute - Junior fellowship 2013 Rich FitzJohn What drives biological diversification? Detecting the traits under species selection; Line Ugelvig - Junior fellowship 2014 Laurie Stevison The Time-Scale of Recombination Rate Evolution in Great Apes 2015 Matthew Hartfield Mathematical adventures in sex and disease evolution 2016 E. Keith Bowers – University of Memphis, US Silver spoons, sexy sons, and constraints on sex allocation 2017 Amanda Kyle Gibson – Emory University, Atlanta, USWhat use is sex? 2018 Siobhan O’Brien – ETH Zurich, CH Understanding the ecology and evolution of microbial social interactions in a complex world 2019 Karl GrieshopSexual conflict and the maintenance of genetic variance in fitness. 2020 Camilo Barbosa 2021 Stefany Moreno-Gamez 2022 Catalina Chaparro-Pedraza 2023 Paul Jay 2024 Magdalena Bohutínská 2025 Hiroshi Arai 2026 Wendy Valencia-Montoya

See also

List of biology awards

References