[2] In 1911–1912, supported by a Radcliffe travelling fellowship, he studied under Friedrich von Müller at Munich.
Poulton and his collaborators did research on oesophageal pain, dissociation curves of blood, physiological effects of anoxia, and creatinine excretions in dietary modifications.
[3] Edward Palmer Poulton, the elder son of Sir Edward Bagnall Poulton, F.R.S, Hope Professor of Zoology in the University of Oxford, had a younger brother, Ronald, and three sisters.
Ronald Poulton (1889–1915) was a famous rugby union footballer, who died in WWI.
In 1911 in Oxford, Edward Palmer Poulton married Elfrida Maclean; they had three sons and two daughters.