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E. B. Ford

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Edmund Brisco "Henry" Ford (23 April 1901 – 2 January 1988) was a British ecological geneticist. [1]

61 relations: Adaptation, April 23, Arthur Cain, Bernard Kettlewell, Bryan Clarke, Dazzled and Deceived, Ecological genetics, Ecological Genetics (book), Edmund Ford, Edward Bagnall Poulton, Edwin Lankester, Evolutionary biology, F-statistics, Ford (surname), Geoffrey Douglas Hale Carpenter, Hardy–Weinberg principle, Helen Spurway, Henry Ford (disambiguation), History of evolutionary thought, Index of evolutionary biology articles, Julian Huxley, Kettlewell's experiment, Lincoln Brower, List of biologists, List of entomologists, List of Fellows of the Royal Society D, E, F, List of Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1946, List of geneticists, List of Old St. Beghians, List of Wadham College people, Michael Majerus, Mimicry, Miriam Rothschild, Modern synthesis (20th century), Molecular ecology, New Naturalist, Of Moths and Men, Papilio dardanus, Peppered moth evolution, Peripatric speciation, Personality psychology, Polymorphism (biology), Polymorphism in Lepidoptera, Population genetics, Professor of Genetics, University of Oxford, Ray Lankester, Ronald Fisher, Scarlet tiger moth, Sex linkage, Supergene, ..., Teän, Timeline of entomology since 1900, W. D. Hamilton, Weldon Memorial Prize, William Collins, Sons, 1901 in science, 1945 in science, 1945 in the United Kingdom, 1988, 1988 in science, 1988 in the United Kingdom. Expand index (11 more) »

Adaptation

In biology, adaptation has three related meanings.

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April 23

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Arthur Cain

Arthur James Cain FRS (25 July 1921 – 20 August 1999) was a British evolutionary biologist and ecologist.

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Bernard Kettlewell

Henry Bernard Davis Kettlewell (24 February 1907 – 11 May 1979) was a British geneticist, lepidopterist and medical doctor, who performed research on the influence of industrial melanism on peppered moth (Biston betularia) coloration, showing why moths are darker in polluted areas.

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Bryan Clarke

Bryan Campbell Clarke (24 June 1932 – 27 February 2014) was a British Professor of genetics, latterly emeritus at the University of Nottingham.

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Dazzled and Deceived

Dazzled and Deceived: Mimicry and Camouflage is a 2009 book on camouflage and mimicry, in nature and military usage, by the science writer and journalist Peter Forbes.

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Ecological genetics

Ecological genetics is the study of genetics in natural populations.

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Ecological Genetics (book)

Ecological Genetics is a 1964 book by the British biologist E. B. Ford on ecological genetics.

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Edmund Ford

Edmund Ford may refer to.

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Edward Bagnall Poulton

Sir Edward Bagnall Poulton, FRS HFRSE (27 January 1856 – 20 November 1943) was a British evolutionary biologist who was a lifelong advocate of natural selection through a period in which many scientists such as Reginald Punnett doubted its importance.

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Edwin Lankester

Edwin Lankester FRS, FRMS, MRCS (23 April 1814 – 30 October 1874) was an English surgeon and naturalist who made a major contribution to the control of cholera in London: he was the first public analyst in England.

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Evolutionary biology

Evolutionary biology is the subfield of biology that studies the evolutionary processes that produced the diversity of life on Earth, starting from a single common ancestor.

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F-statistics

In population genetics, F-statistics (also known as fixation indices) describe the statistically expected level of heterozygosity in a population; more specifically the expected degree of (usually) a reduction in heterozygosity when compared to Hardy–Weinberg expectation.

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Ford (surname)

The surname Ford has several origins.

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Geoffrey Douglas Hale Carpenter

G.D. Hale Carpenter MBE (26 October 1882 in Eton, Berkshire – 30 January 1953 in Oxford) was a British entomologist and medical doctor.

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Hardy–Weinberg principle

The Hardy–Weinberg principle, also known as the Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium, model, theorem, or law, states that allele and genotype frequencies in a population will remain constant from generation to generation in the absence of other evolutionary influences.

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Helen Spurway

Helen Spurway (Helen Haldane) (c. 1917 – 15 February 1978, Hyderabad) was a biologist and the second wife of J. B. S. Haldane.

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Henry Ford (disambiguation)

Henry Ford (1863–1947) was an American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company.

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History of evolutionary thought

Evolutionary thought, the conception that species change over time, has roots in antiquity – in the ideas of the ancient Greeks, Romans, and Chinese as well as in medieval Islamic science.

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Index of evolutionary biology articles

This is a list of topics in evolutionary biology.

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Julian Huxley

Sir Julian Sorell Huxley FRS (22 June 1887 – 14 February 1975) was a British evolutionary biologist, eugenicist, and internationalist.

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Kettlewell's experiment

Kettlewell's experiment was a biological experiment in the mid-1950s to study the evolutionary mechanism of industrial melanism in the peppered moth (Biston betularia).

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Lincoln Brower

Lincoln Pierson Brower (born 1931) is an entomologist and ecologist, known for his work on monarch butterflies through six decades, including on their automimicry, chemical ecology and conservation.

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List of biologists

This is a list of notable biologists with a biography in Wikipedia.

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List of entomologists

The following is a list of entomologists, people who have studied insects.

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List of Fellows of the Royal Society D, E, F

About 8,000 Fellows have been elected to the Royal Society of London since its inception in 1660.

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List of Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1946

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List of geneticists

This is a list of people who have made notable contributions to genetics.

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List of Old St. Beghians

Former pupils of St Bees School, a coeducational independent school founded in 1583, are styled Old St Beghians.

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List of Wadham College people

A list of Wadham College, Oxford people, including alumni, Fellows, Deans and Wardens of the College.

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Michael Majerus

Michael Eugene Nicolas Majerus (13 February 1954 – 27 January 2009) was a British geneticist and Professor of Evolution at the University of Cambridge.

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Mimicry

In evolutionary biology, mimicry is a similarity of one organism, usually an animal, to another that has evolved because the resemblance is selectively favoured by the behaviour of a shared signal receiver that can respond to both.

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Miriam Rothschild

Dame Miriam Louisa Rothschild DBE FRS (5 August 1908 – 20 January 2005) was a British natural scientist and author with contributions to zoology, entomology, and botany.

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Modern synthesis (20th century)

The modern synthesis was the early 20th-century synthesis reconciling Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and Gregor Mendel's ideas on heredity in a joint mathematical framework.

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Molecular ecology

Molecular ecology is a field of evolutionary biology that is concerned with applying molecular population genetics, molecular phylogenetics, and more recently genomics to traditional ecological questions (e.g., species diagnosis, conservation and assessment of biodiversity, species-area relationships, and many questions in behavioral ecology).

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New Naturalist

The New Naturalist Library (also known as The New Naturalists) is a series of books published by Collins in the United Kingdom, on a variety of natural history topics relevant to the British Isles.

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Of Moths and Men

Of Moths and Men is a book by journalist Judith Hooper about the Oxford University ecological genetics school led by E.B. Ford.

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Papilio dardanus

Papilio dardanus, the African swallowtail, mocker swallowtail or flying handkerchief, is a species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae (the swallowtails).

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Peppered moth evolution

The evolution of the peppered moth is an evolutionary instance of directional colour change in the moth population as a consequence of air pollution during the Industrial Revolution.

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Peripatric speciation

Peripatric speciation is a mode of speciation in which a new species is formed from an isolated peripheral population.

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Personality psychology

Personality psychology is a branch of psychology that studies personality and its variation among individuals.

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Polymorphism (biology)

Polymorphism in biology and zoology is the occurrence of two or more clearly different morphs or forms, also referred to as alternative phenotypes, in the population of a species.

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Polymorphism in Lepidoptera

Many types of polymorphism can be seen in the insect order Lepidoptera.

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Population genetics

Population genetics is a subfield of genetics that deals with genetic differences within and between populations, and is a part of evolutionary biology.

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Professor of Genetics, University of Oxford

The Professorship of Genetics at the University of Oxford is a professorship that is attached to a fellowship at Keble College, Oxford.

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Ray Lankester

Sir Edwin Ray Lankester (15 May 1847 – 13 August 1929) was a British zoologist.

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Ronald Fisher

Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher (17 February 1890 – 29 July 1962), who published as R. A. Fisher, was a British statistician and geneticist.

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Scarlet tiger moth

The scarlet tiger moth (Callimorpha dominula, formerly Panaxia dominula) is a colorful moth belonging to the tiger moth subfamily, Arctiinae.

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Sex linkage

Sex linkage is the phenotypic expression of an allele related to the allosome (sex chromosome) of the individual.

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Supergene

A supergene is a group of neighbouring genes on a chromosome which are inherited together because of close genetic linkage and are functionally related in an evolutionary sense, although they are rarely co-regulated genetically.

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Teän

Teän (sometimes written Tean without the diaeresis) is an uninhabited island to the north of the Isles of Scilly archipelago between Tresco, to the west and St Martin's to the east.

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Timeline of entomology since 1900

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W. D. Hamilton

William Donald Hamilton, FRS (1 August 1936 – 7 March 2000) was an English evolutionary biologist, widely recognised as one of the most significant evolutionary theorists of the 20th century.

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Weldon Memorial Prize

The Weldon Memorial Prize, also known as the Weldon Memorial Prize and Medal, is given yearly by the University of Oxford.

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William Collins, Sons

William Collins, Sons (often referred to as Collins) was a Scottish printing and publishing company founded by a Presbyterian schoolmaster, William Collins, in Glasgow in 1819, in partnership with Charles Chalmers, the younger brother of Thomas Chalmers, minister of Tron Church, Glasgow.

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1901 in science

The year 1901 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

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1945 in science

The year 1945 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

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1945 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1945 in the United Kingdom.

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1988

In the 20th century, the year 1988 has the most Roman numeral digits (11).

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1988 in science

The year 1988 in science and technology involved many significant events, some listed below.

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1988 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1988 in the United Kingdom.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._B._Ford

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