Agnostic translates an Italian interview with mathematical biologist Martin Nowak. Here are my posts read relating to Nowak's work. His book Evolutionary Dynamics is one of the best coffee table books for nerds out there (nice sturdy hard cover and glossy pages with helpful charts to navigate the formalism).
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