G. P. Wells (1901–1985)
Author of The Science of Life
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Works by G. P. Wells
Associated Works
H.G. Wells in Love: Postscript to an Experiment in Autobiography (1984) — Editor — 56 copies, 3 reviews
The Last Books of H.G. Wells: The Happy Turning: A Dream of Life; and, Mind at the End of its Tether (1968) — Editor — 36 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Wells, George Philip
- Birthdate
- 1901
- Date of death
- 1985
- Gender
- male
- Relationships
- Wells, H. G. (father)
- Short biography
- George Philip Wells FRS (17 July 1901 – 27 September 1985), son of the British science fiction author H. G. Wells, was a zoologist and author.
- Nationality
- UK
- Associated Place (for map)
- UK
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Magisterial. 'The Science of Life' is still well worth reading eighty years after it was published. Book Four (The How and Why of Development and Evolution) has been callled "perhaps the clearest, most readable, succinct and informative popular account of the subject ever penned. It was here that [Julian Huxley] first expounded his own version of what later developed into the evolutionary synthesis," a term that Julian Huxley coined, and which is still the current paradigm in evolutionary show more biology. show less
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- Works
- 36
- Also by
- 3
- Members
- 256
- Popularity
- #89,546
- Rating
- 3.8
- Reviews
- 3
- ISBNs
- 1