Vandel, Albert (1894-1980)

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
A student of Maurice Caullery, Albert Vandel (1894-1980), who was Professor at the Faculté des Sciences in Toulouse. In his 1939 book, L’homme et l’évolution, he asked whether the “spring of nature” had lost its resilience, since the mutations of the day seemed to be of too narrow a scope. Vandel criticized the general philosophy underlying the mutationist account of evolution as giving an excessively anthropocentrist (and individualist) approach: only in the human species do individual variations really matter.

TAXONOMIC PUBLICATIONS

 * Vandel, A. 1926. Fourmis françaises rares ou peu connues. Bull. Soc. Entomol. Fr. 1926: 196-198


 * Vandel, A. 1931. Étude d'un gynandromorphe (dinergatandromorphe) de Pheidole pallidula Nyl. (Hyménoptères - Formicidés). Bull. Biol. Fr. Belg. 65: 114-129

REFERENCE

 * Orghidan, T. 1982. Travaux de l'Institut de Speleologie Emile Racovitza 20: 5-7, portrait.