John Maynard Smith Prize

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

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