V. C. Wynne-Edwards

V. C. Wynne-Edwards

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birth_date = 4 July 1906
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death_date = January 5 1997
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field = zoology
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known_for = group selection
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Vero Copner Wynne-Edwards (4 July 1906 — January 5 1997) was a British zoologist best known for espousing group selection, most notably in his 1962 book, "Animal Dispersion in Relation to Social Behavior". In it, he argued that many behaviors are adaptations of the group, rather than adaptations of the individual, and that populations have adaptive self regulatory mechanisms. His arguments were vigorously criticised by George C. Williams in his "Adaptation and Natural Selection", as well as by Richard Dawkins in "The Selfish Gene".

His son Hugh Wynne-Edwards is a professor of geology, and his granddaughter Kathy Wynne-Edwards a professor of biology.

Books

* Wynne-Edwards, V.C. 1962. "Animal Dispersion in Relation to Social Behavior". Oliver & Boyd, London.
* Wynne-Edwards, V.C. 1986. "Evolution through group selection". Oxford : Blackwell Scientific. 340 pp. ISBN 0632015411 (paperback)

References

*Citation
id = PMID:15749153
url= http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15749153
last=Borrello
first=Mark E
publication-date=2005 Mar
year=2005
title=The rise, fall and resurrection of group selection.
volume=29
issue=1
periodical=Endeavour
pages=43-7
doi = 10.1016/j.endeavour.2004.11.003
*Citation
id = PMID:15061166
url= http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15061166
last=Borrello
first=Mark E
publication-date=2004
year=2004
title="Mutual aid" and "animal dispersion": an historical analysis of alternatives to Darwin.
volume=47
issue=1
periodical=Perspect. Biol. Med.
pages=15-31
* Williams, G.C. 1966. "Adaptation and Natural Selection". Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.
*Williams, G.C. (Ed.) 1971 "Group Selection". Aldine·Atherton, Chicago, IL.

External links

* http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/Auk/v116n03/p0815-p0816.pdf
* http://people.bu.edu/cschneid/BI504/PowerPoint/Week5_2.pdf
* [http://db.archives.queensu.ca/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpub.dll?AC=MENU_QUERY&XC=/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpub.dll&BU=http%3A//archives.queensu.ca/dbtw-wpd/fondsdb/wiki.htm&TN=fonds&SN=wynne-edwards&RF=HTML+-+Fonds+Display&EF=&DF=HTML+-+Fonds+Display&MR=20&RL=1&EL=1&DL=1&NP=0 Vero Wynne-Edwards fonds] at [http://archives.queensu.ca/ Queen's University Archives]


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