Background
Evans, Francis Cope was born on December 2, 1914 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Edward Wyatt and Jacqueline Pascal (Morris) Evans.
Evans, Francis Cope was born on December 2, 1914 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Edward Wyatt and Jacqueline Pascal (Morris) Evans.
Bachelor of Science, Haverford College, 1936; Doctor of Philosophy (Rhodes scholar), University of Oxford, 1939; Claypole fellow, University of California, Berkeley, 1939-1940.
Research assistant, Hooper Foundation, San Francisco, 1939-1941; junior zoologist, University of California, Davis, 1941-1943; instructor, assistant professor, Haverford (Pennsylvania) College, 1943-1948; acting dean, Haverford (Pennsylvania) College, 1944; assistant professor, associate professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1948-1959; professor, associate director, E.S. George Reserve, 1959-1982; professor emeritus, since 1982.
Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member Ecological Society of America (president 1983, Distinguished Service award 1987), British Ecological Society, American Society Naturalists, Society for Study Evolution.
Married Rachel Worthington Brooks, June 12, 1942. Children— Kenneth Richardson, Katharine Cope, Edward Wyatt II, Rachel Howe.