V.C. Wynne-Edwards

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Vero C. Wynne-Edwards (1906-1997) was a British zoologist. Between 1946 and 1974 he was Regius Professor of Natural History at the University of Aberdeen.

Wynne-Edwards proposed a theory of group selection which was dismissed by most students of evolution (cf. Dawkins 1976). However, dissatisfaction with kin selection and reciprocal altruism as adequate accounts of altruism has led some zoologists to propose an updated version of Wynne-Edwards' hypothesis (see Wilson & Sober, 1994; Sober & Wilson, 1998)

Bibliography

• Animal Dispersion in Relation to Social Behaviour. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1962.
• Evolution Through Group Selection. Oxford: Blackwell, 1986.

References

• Dawkins, R., 1976. The Selfish Gene. Oxford Univ. Press.
• Wilson, D.S. & E. Sober (1994) 'Reintroducing Group Selection to the Human and Behavioral Sciences', Behavioral and Brain Sciences 17: 585-654
• Sober, E. & D.S. Wilson (1998) Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior, Harvard University Press.