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V. C. Wynne-Edwards was born on 4 July, 1906 in Leeds, England, is an English zoologist. Discover V. C. Wynne-Edwards's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 91 years old?
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Leeds, England |
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1997 |
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Banchory, Aberdeenshire, Scotland |
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Vero Copner Wynne-Edwards, CBE, FRS, FRSE (4 July 1906 – 5 January 1997) was an English zoologist.
He was best known for his advocacy of group selection, the theory that natural selection acts at the level of the group.
He was born in Leeds on 4 July 1906 the son of Rev Canon John Rosindale Wynne-Edwards and his wife, Lilian Agnes Streatfield.
He attended Rugby School then studied Zoology at Oxford University graduating MA. In 1929 he took a post at McGill University in Canada, lecturing in zoology.
This was interrupted by the Second World War during which he served in the Royal Canadian Naval Reserve.
Their son Hugh Wynne-Edwards is a professor of geology, and his granddaughter Katherine Wynne-Edwards is a professor of biology at the University of Calgary.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1950.
Wynne-Edwards was best known for espousing a form of group selection that operates at the level of the species, most notably in his 1962 book, Animal Dispersion in Relation to Social Behaviour.
In it, he argued that many behaviors evolved for the good of the species as a whole, rather than at a lower level of organization.
For example, he argued that species have adaptive population-regulatory mechanisms.
His arguments were vigorously criticized by George C. Williams in his Adaptation and Natural Selection, a debate summarized by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene.
David Sloan Wilson and E. O. Wilson called Wynne-Edwards' theory "naive group selection".
Among the mechanisms that Wynne-Edwards proposed was population regulation, based on the communication of population density by what he called epideictic displays, in which individuals advertised their genitals.
If a population was becoming too dense, such displays would result in reduced breeding across the population, contrary to Darwinian natural selection but in line with Wynne-Edwards's group selection.
The mechanism has never been demonstrated unequivocally.
In 1970 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.
His candidature citation read
He won the Society's Neill Prize for the period 1973–75.
After the war Aberdeen University made him the Regius Professor in Natural History and he continued this until retiral in 1974.
He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1974 and was given an honorary doctorate (LLD) by Aberdeen University.
He remained in the area after retiral and died in Banchory on 5 January 1997.
