Reviews for Mathematics and the life sciences

The average rating for Mathematics and the life sciences based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-10-08 00:00:00 TAKASHI MATSUBARA A friend and I took Coursera's "Genetics and Evolution" MOOC and we used this textbook to get a better understanding of the material. It is authored by a giant in the field, who also happens to be a clear writer. It is hard to overstate how consequential such clarity is for communicating scientific concepts, suffices to say that both of the "recommended" textbooks are utterly incomprehensible. After genuinely suffering with Griffith's and Freeman's textbooks for the first two weeks, we discovered J.M. Smith by accident and the light bulb just went off. The contrast was so great, I started to think that environment actually matters :) Notes to self - 4-page handwritten summary of the course:

Review # 2 was written on 2020-01-03 00:00:00 Chris Stermer This was written as an MSc-level textbook by the late great John Maynard Smith, and is fairly mathematical/statistical.