Background
He was born to Pardon Sheldon and Maud Remington in Reedville, Virginia, on January 19, 1922.
entomologist scientist Zoologist
He was born to Pardon Sheldon and Maud Remington in Reedville, Virginia, on January 19, 1922.
Harvard University.
He established a Periodical Cicada preserve in Hamden, Connecticut. He developed the insect collection at the Peabody Museum of Natural History. His family then moved to Saint Louis, Missouri.
He grew up collecting butterflies with his father.
He did his undergraduate studies at Principia College, where he received a Bachelor of Surgery in 1943. During his military service in World World War II, he served as a medical entomologist, throughout the Pacific, researching insect-borne diseases and centipede bites in the Philippines.
He started teaching at Yale University in 1948. Foreign the academic year 1958-1959, Remington was a Guggenheim fellow at Oxford University.
In the 1960s he proposed that there were geographic regions which he called suture zones where species tended to hybridize with close relatives.
With Richard Bowers and Paul R. Ehrlich he founded Zero Population Growth. He served on the board of advisors of the Carrying Capacity Network, which supports immigration reduction. He died on May 31, 2007, at age 85, in Hamden, Connecticut.