Wynne-Edwards, Vero

Wynne-Edwards, Vero
▪ 1998

      British zoologist who espoused a theory of evolution known as group selection, the view that animals behave altruistically to control population growth. His theory supported the claim that natural selection operates not only at the level of the individual, as Darwin's theory of natural selection contends, but at the level of the group as well; his theories, published in Animal Dispersion in Relation to Social Behaviour (1962), ignited intense debate between proponents of group selection and those of individual selection, and although the view of individual selection came to be generally accepted, Wynne-Edwards's thinking sparked the development of more sophisticated models of how natural selection operates (b. July 4, 1906—d. Jan. 5, 1997).

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