Items from the list of books recommended by Dr Feldenkrais for SF training, 1975
Vero C. WYNNE-EDWARDS (1906-1997), Animal Dispersion in Relation to Social Behaviour,
Edinburgh, London, Oliver and Boyd, cop. 1962
A British zoologist, he is one of the pioneers of marine ornithology. He is best known for defending
a theory of evolution known as “group selection”, which sees animals as behaving altruistically in
order to control population growth. This view – which was highly controversial in the 1960s and
1970s – considers that natural selection takes place not only at individual level, but also at group
level[1]. After attending Oxford and teaching at Bristol University, he moved to Montreal, where he
taught from 1930 to 1946. His interests included birds and the distribution of glacial plants. He
was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1946, was appointed Chair of Zoology at
the University of Aberdeen (UK) and was made a Fellow of the British Royal Society in 1970.
[1]Reference by MF to the behavior of "Mutton birds" in Esalen 1972, lesson 1: « Introduction and general remarks ». For a discussion of Vero Wynne-Edwards' position on group selections see for ex. Borrello, M. E. (2003). « Synthesis and Selection: Wynne-Edwards’ Challenge to David Lack ». Journal of the History of Biology, 36(3), 531–566.
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