Legacy
Poulton is remembered as an early originator of the biological species concept. According to Mayr, Poulton invented the term sympatric in relation to species, and he also invented the term aposematism for warning coloration.
Poulton, along with Julian Huxley, J.B.S. Haldane, R.A. Fisher and E.B. Ford, promoted the idea of natural selection through many years when it was denigrated.
Poulton was succeeded by G.D. Hale Carpenter as Hope Professor of Entomology at Oxford University from 1933–1948.
Read more about this topic: Edward Bagnall Poulton
Famous quotes containing the word legacy:
“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)