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Organisms automatically generate their own cycles of abundance and rarity and... the changes in selection pressures with which these are associated may greatly increase the speed of evolution.

E. B. Ford

E. B. Ford

E. B. Ford

Born: April 23, 1901

Died: January 2, 1988 (aged 86)

Bio: Edmund Brisco "Henry" Ford FRS Hon. FRCP was a British ecological geneticist. He was a leader among those British biologists who investigated the role of natural selection in nature.

Known for:

Ecological Genetics (1964)
Butterflies (Collins New Naturalist Library, Book 1)
Butterflies (New Naturalist Facsimilies)
Lencho: His Story
Moths (1955)

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