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...

Emerson, A. H. Sturtevant, and to a smaller extent, the work of V. C. Wynne-Edwards. The book takes its title from a lecture by George Gaylord Simpson...

of at the level of the individual or gene. Early authors such as V. C. Wynne-Edwards and Konrad Lorenz argued that the behavior of animals could affect...

idea of group selection for the good of the species as proposed by V. C. Wynne-Edwards, arguing instead that each parent necessarily behaves selfishly....

parasitic nematode worm Trichostrongylus tenuis. However, in his book, V. C. Wynne-Edwards suggests that the primary reason for mortality in grouse population...

(1965–1970) Professor James William Longman Beament (succeeding V. C. Wynne-Edwards FRS; 1978–1981) Professor John Krebs, Baron Krebs (1994–1999) Sir...

writer Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835–1900), French zoologist Henri Milne-Edwards (1800–1885), French naturalist V. C. Wynne-Edwards (1906–1997), British...

in January 1977 and was replaced by John Edwards, who had recorded a number of R&B hits as a solo singer. Wynne had a solo career and entered the business...

(1902–1986) 1960-1965 : Reginald Ernest Moreau (1897–1970) 1965-1970 : V C Wynne-Edwards (1906–1997) 1970-1975 : Guy Mountfort (1905–2003) 1975-1979 : Sir...

1971); died in a car crash Joan Rice, actress (born 1930) 5 January – V. C. Wynne-Edwards, zoologist (born 1906) 7 January Patricia McLaughlin, Northern Irish...