Word: poulton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in Nottingham, Sir Edward Bagnall Poulton, D. Sc., LL. D., F. R. S., distinguished zoology professor at Oxford, this year's president of the B. A. A. S., said: "The British Association provides a very favorable field for the discussion of many-sided subjects...
Last week Dr. Poulton brought into court certain characteristics which could not possibly have been developed by inherited experience, since the experience in question is fatal. Example: protective coloring in insects. If the coloring is defective and the insect is detected and devoured by preying birds, it cannot profit by the experience of being eaten or pass on any profit to any offspring. Only alternative is the neo-Darwinist conclusion that the insects which happen to have the most protective coloring will live longest and pass on their advantages to large numbers of offspring...
This outburst was greeted with laughter. Professor Edward Bagnall Poulton of Oxford suavely interposed...