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V.C. Wynne-Edwards



Vero Copner Wynne-Edwards (4 July 1906 — January 5 1997) was a British zoologist best known for espousing group selection, most notably in his 1962 book, Animal Dispersion in Relation to Social Behavior. In it, he argued that many behaviors are adaptations of the group, rather than adaptations of the individual, and that populations have adaptive self regulatory mechanisms.



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