Pierre-Paul Grassé

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French writer

Pierre-Paul Grassé was a French zoologist, writer of over 300 publications including the influential 52-volume Traité de Zoologie. He was an expert on termites who rejected Neo-Darwinism and was a proponent of Neo-Lamarckism. Wikipedia

Born: November 27, 1895, Dordogne, France

Died: July 9, 1985 (age 89 years), Paris, France

Books: Evolution of Living Organisms, Larousse Animal Portraits: By P.P. Grasse, Evolution, and more

Edited works: Evolution, Zoologie: Generalites, Protozoaires, Metazoaires I, and Larousse encyclopedia of the animal world