# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/v-c-wynne-edwards
# Generated: 2026-08-15T02:36:07.411Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/v-c-wynne-edwards"
name: "V. C. Wynne-Edwards"
slug: "v-c-wynne-edwards"
description: "Vero Copner Wynne-Edwards, CBE, FRS, FRSE was an English zoologist. He was best known for his advocacy of group selection, the theory that natural selection acts at the level of the group."
tagline: "British zoologist (1906–1997)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/28/V._C._Wynne-Edwards.gif"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1906-07-04"
deathDate: "1997-01-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.45
  momentum:             11.47058823529412
  historical:           8.275090666666665
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Vero Copner Wynne-Edwards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vero_Wynne-Edwards"
    title: "Vero Wynne-Edwards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V._C._Wynne-Edwards"
    title: "V. C. Wynne-Edwards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vero_Copner_Wynne-Edwards"
    title: "Vero Copner Wynne-Edwards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "وی سی وین-ادواردز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vero_Copner_Wynne-Edwards"
    title: "Vero Copner Wynne-Edwards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vero_Copner_Wynne-Edwards"
    title: "Vero Copner Wynne-Edwards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A7%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B3%E3%83%97%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3%EF%BC%9D%E3%82%A8%E3%83%89%E3%83%AF%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BA"
    title: "ヴェロ・コプナー・ウィン＝エドワーズ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vero_C._Wynne-Edwards"
    title: "Vero C. Wynne-Edwards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump