Professor Edmund Brisco "Henry" Ford, F.R.S. (23rd April 1901 - 2nd January 1988) was a British ecological geneticist. At a young age he became interested in lepidoptera, the group of insects which includes butterflies and moths. The Royal Society of London is claimed to be the oldest learned society still in existence and was founded in 1660. ... April 23 is the 113th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (114th in leap years). ... 1901 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... January 2 is the 2nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Ecological genetics is the study of genetics (itself a field of biology) from an ecological perspective. ... Super Families Butterflies Hesperioidea Papilionoidea Moths Micropterigoidea Heterobathmioidea Eriocranioidea Acanthopteroctetoidea Lophocoronoidea Neopseustoidea Mnesarchaeoidea Hepialoidea Nepticuloidea Incurvarioidea Palaephatoidea Tischeriodea Simaethistoidea Tineoidea Gracillarioidea Yponomeutoidea Gelechioidea Zygaenoidea Sesioidea Cossoidea Tortricoidea Choreutoida Urodoidea Galacticoidea Schreckensteinioidea Epermenioidea Pterophoroidea Aluctoidea Immoidea Axioidea Hyblaeoidea Thyridoidea Whalleyanoidea Pyraloidea Mimallonoidea Lasiocampoidea Geometroidea Drepanoidea Bombycoidea Calliduloidae Hedyloidea Noctuoidea Families About... Classes & Orders Subclass: Apterygota Orders Archaeognatha (Bristletails) Thysanura (Silverfish) Monura - extinct Subclass: Pterygota Orders Ephemeroptera (mayflies) Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) Diaphanopteroidea - extinct Palaeodictyoptera - extinct Megasecoptera - extinct Archodonata - extinct Infraclass: Neoptera Orders Blattodea (cockroaches) Isoptera (termites) Mantodea (mantids) Dermaptera (earwigs) Plecoptera (stoneflies) Orthoptera (grasshoppers, etc) Phasmatodea (walking sticks) Embioptera (webspinners) Zoraptera... Families Superfamily Hesperioidea: Hesperiidae Superfamily Papilionoidea: Papilionidae Pieridae Nymphalidae Lycaenidae Riodinidae A butterfly is a flying insect of the order Lepidoptera belonging to one of the superfamilies Hesperioidea (the skippers) and Papilionoidea (all other butterflies). ... A moth is an insect closely related to the butterfly. ...

Biography

Ford was a pupil and follower of Ronald Fisher. Like Fisher, he continued the Anglo-American natural selection vs genetic drift feud, particularly with Sewall Wright, who Ford believed put too much emphasis on the power of genetic drift. He was an experimentalist, and wanted to test evolution in nature. See his magnum opus Ecological Genetics (Ford, 1964 & later editions). However, note that some of his work has been criticised. Nevertheless, he laid much of the groundwork for more modern studies, which also benefit from biochemical techniques now available. In 1954 he won the Royal Society's Darwin Medal. Sir Ronald Fisher Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher, FRS (February 17, 1890 – July 29, 1962) was an evolutionary biologist, geneticist and statistician. ... Natural selection is a process by which biological populations are altered over time, as a result of the propagation of heritable traits that affect the capacity of individual organisms to survive and reproduce. ... Genetic drift is a mechanism of evolution that acts in concert with natural selection to change the characteristics of species over time. ... Sewall Green Wright (December 21, 1889 - March 3, 1988) was one of the primary founders of population genetics which led to the modern evolutionary synthesis. ... Charles Darwin, father of the theory of evolution by natural selection. ... Magnum opus (sometimes Opus magnum), from the Latin meaning great work, refers to the best or most renowned achievement of an author, artist, or composer. ... 1954 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge, known simply as the Royal Society, is claimed to be the oldest learned society still in existence. ... The Darwin Medal is given by the Royal Society on even years to a biologist or a husband and wife team of biologists. ...

Amongst Ford's many publications, perhaps the most popularly successful was the first book in the New Naturalist series, Butterflies (Ford, 1945). Ford also went on in 1954 to write another book in the series, one of only a very few authors to have done so. Cover of the first book in the series, E.B. Fords famous Butterflies The New Naturalist books are a series published by Collins in the United Kingdom, on a variety of natural history topics relevant to the British Isles. ... 1954 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Ford never married and did not have any children, prompting suggestions that he was homosexual. Ford was an eccentric so biographies are interesting to say the least. Marren (1995) has a biographical chapter. Hooper (2002) gives an interesting account of Ford and his relationship with Bernard Kettlewell and Kettlewell's work on melanism in the peppered moth, Biston betularia. However, it has had scathing reviews (see for example, Clark 2003), as it appears to support creationism. He also had a biographical memoir from The Royal Society (Clark 1995 (?)). Homosexuality is a sexual orientation characterized by esthetic attraction, romantic love, or sexual desire exclusively for another of the same sex. ... Dr Henry Bernard Davis Kettlewell (24 February 1907 - 1979) was a British lepidopterist and medical doctor. ... Melanism is an increased amount of black or nearly black pigmentation (as of skin, feathers, or hair) of an individual or kind of organism. ... Binomial name Biston (moth) betularia Linnaeus, 1758 Subspecies betularia cognataria parva The peppered moth (Biston betularia) is a temperate species of night-flying moth often used by educators as an example of natural selection (see theory of evolution, industrial melanism). ... Creationism or creation theology encompasses the belief that human beings, the Earth, and the universe were created by a supreme being or deity. ... The Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge, known simply as the Royal Society, is claimed to be the oldest learned society still in existence. ...

Biographies

• Marren P. (1995). The New Naturalists. HarperCollins: London
• Clarke B (1995). Edmund Brisco Ford. Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society of London ?:147

Bibliography

(NB: by date, not alphabetically)

• Ford E.B. (1931). Mendelism and Evolution. Methuen, London.
• Carpenter G.D.H. and E.B. Ford (1933) Mimicry. Methuen, London
• Ford E.B. (1938). The Study of Heredity. Butterworth, London. 2nd Edn OUP.
• Ford E.B. (1942, 7th edn 1973). Genetics for Medical Students Chapman and Hall: London.
• Ford E.B. (1945, 3rd edn 1977). New Naturalist 1: Butterflies. Collins: London.
• Ford E.B. (1955, 3rd edn 1972). New Naturalist 30: Moths. HarperCollins: London
• Ford E.B. (1964), 4th edn 1975). 'Ecological Genetics'. Chapman and Hall: London
• Ford E.B. (1965). Genetic Polymorphisms. Faber and Faber: London
• Ford E.B. (1976). Genes and Adaptation Institute of Biology studies. Edward Arnold: London
• Ford E.B. (1979). Understanding Genetics. Faber and Faber: London
• Ford E.B. (1981). Taking Genetics into the Countryside. Weidenfeld and Nicholson: London
• Ford E.B. and J.S. Haywood (1984). Church treasures of the Oxford District. Alan Sutton: Gloucester (N.B. This is not on genetics!)

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Dedicated works

• Creed R (ed) (1971) Ecological Genetics and Evolution: Essays in Honour of E.B.Ford. Blackwell, Oxford.
• Kettlewell H.B.D. The Evolution of Melanism. (Jointly dedicated to Ford and the Nuffield Foundation
• Vane-Wright R.I. and Ackery P.R. (1984) The Biology of Butterflies. Symposia of the Royal Entomological Society of London no 11.

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External links

1. Papers co-written with Ronald Fisher are available on the University of Adelaide's website http://www.library.adelaide.edu.au/digitised/fisher/index.html