Wilfred Eade Agar

He was educated at Sedbergh School, Yorkshire, and at King's College, Cambridge, where he read zoology.

In 1919, he accepted the chair of zoology at the University of Melbourne; his notable projects concerned marsupial chromosomes and inheritance in cattle.

He successfully challenged the Lamarckian findings of William McDougall relating to the inheritance of the effects of training in rats.

He said "it was a disastrous state of affairs that size of families was usually in inverse ratio to intelligence.

The book was based on the system of Whitehead's philosophy of the organism and argued for a form panpsychism.