Dennis Chitty, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Dennis Chitty

Canadian zoologist

Date of Birth: 18-Sep-1912

Place of Birth: Bristol, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 03-Feb-2010

Profession: zoologist, ecologist

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Dennis Hubert Chitty (18 September 1912 – 3 February 2010), was a professor of zoology at the University of British Columbia.
In 1969, he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.The Chitty Hypothesis of Population Regulation states that population density is limited by spacing behaviour, which has genetic underpinnings and rapidly responds to natural selection.
Because of the controversial nature of this idea at the time, David Lack attempted to veto Chitty's dissertation, though it was eventually accepted because of the intervention of Peter Medawar.