Finding aircraft to be both noisy and technologically outdated, however, he enrolled at University College London, where he worked under the supervision of J.B.S. Haldane, studying the genetics, physiology, and behavior of the fruit fly Drosophila subobscura. In 1965, he became the founding Dean of Biology at the newly established University of Sussex.

His interest in evolution began while he was still a schoolboy, prompted by the theory’s religious and philosophical implications. His later research focused on the evolution of sex and altruistic behavior, as well as the relationship between evolution and ecology.

THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION