William Patten (zoologist)


William Patten was an American biologist and zoologist noted for his late 1919 address “The Message of the Biologist”, given to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and follow-up 1920 book The Grand Strategy of Evolution: the Social Philosophy of a Biologist, in both of which he utilizes chemistry theory, mixed with evolution theory, mixed with biology, to outline a philosophy of society.