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3. Philip Jackson Darlington, Jr.
Pages 32-45

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... A tough explorer, he influenced the style and thinking of current field zoologists. An equally tough and original scientist, he transformed accepted wisdom regarding the way animals evolved ant!
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... Back in Hartforct, he rode trolleys and bicycles to nearby natural environments to keep his hobby going. An Exeter physics teacher interested in natural history further influenced him, mentor ant!
From page 35...
... Two years later he married Elizabeth Koch of Cambridge, who shared his love of natural history and accompanied him on many of his later excursions. (In 1956-57, the two of them and their son, Philip Frederick Darlington, spent eighteen months in the Australian wild living out of a truck.)
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... Harbor, Darlington enlisted in the Army Sanitary Corps Malaria Survey as a first lieutenant. He served in the Sixth Army during the New Guinea, Bismarck Archipelago, Central Philippines, and I,uzon Campaigns, retiring as a major in 1944.
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... Ward Walker, a Marine Corps combat correspondent, and distributed by the Associated Press. It appeared as "Harvard Scientist Fights Crocodile with Bare Hands," in the Boston Globe, evening edition, March 31, 1944; and "'Had Episode with Crocodile,' Wife Reads," in the same Issue.
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... bridges, while Darlington thought that animals might have been transported by wincis for considerable distances before being dropped onto islands. Barbour doubted wind dispersal because he felt sure that larger animals, such as frogs, wouIc!
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... His experiment demonstrated the role of visual cues in mimicry anct was the forerunner of many later stuclies that have brought us to our current firm understanding of the phenomenon. From his thorough unclerstanding of beetle distribution, Darlington successfully challenged Darwin's theory that Sightlessness in island insects is clue to winged forms being swept away by the wind.
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... Keeping Matthew's vision of dominance and cyclic replacement, he reconsiclerec3 the area of origin. With the aid of extensive new fossil evidence and close examination of the zoogeography of living coIcI-blooded vertebrates, he shifted the principal source area for dominant groups to the 01d World tropics—more precisely, to central and northern Africa, southern Europe and the Middle East (tropical in climate during much of the Tertiary)
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... WorIc! tropic dominance still holds, at least as a working model, for the many other groups of Tertiary origin.
From page 42...
... Auk 47:251-52. 1931 Notes on the birds of Rio Frio (near Santa Marta)
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... 1957 Zoogeography: The geographical distribution of animals. New York: John Wiley & Sons.
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... New York: John Wiley & Sons.


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