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Warder Clyde Allee was born on June 5,1885 in Bloomingdale, Indiana and was an accomplished Zoologist and Ecologist. Allee is recognized to be one of the great pioneers of American Ecology (Schmidt). He was best known for his research on social behavior, aggregations and distributions of animals in aquatic as well as terrestrial environments (Britannica). Allee is also recognized for his extensive research on animal behavior, protocooperation and for identifying the Allee effect. Allee was a former instructor at the University of Chicago where he wrote over 200 research papers and published more than a dozen books. His most notable book being, Principles of Animal Ecology (Britannica), which was published in December of 1949. He was married to author, Marjorie Hill Allee. Allee dedicated his life to biological work and remained active in the field until his death on March 18, 1955 at the age of 70 in Gainsville, Florida.

Allee attended Earlham College and upon his graduation in 1908, Clyde Allee pursued advanced studies at the University of Chicago where he received his PhD and graduated summa cum laude in 1912 (Schmidt). Clyde Allee began his teaching career as the Assistant of the Department of Zoology, which began the journey of his career resulting in thirty years tenure at the University of Chicago from 1921-1950 (Schmidt). He was strongly influenced by Frank R. Lillie, head of the Department of Zoology at the University of Chicago and one of the founders of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA (Schmidt). Warder Clyde Allee gained interest in the interactions and patterns of the distribution of marine mammals during his time as an instructor at the Marine Biological Laboratory from 1914-1921 (Britannica).

In 1923, Warder Clyde Allee began to write a series of papers entitled, Animal Aggregations. Eight years later, he published his findings in a book under the same name. It should also be noted that Allee’s biological basis of democracy arrived at a time when the future of world politics and human kind’s morality were at question themselves. Allee was committed to world peace and this commitment anteceded his theory of sociality (Mitman).

Clyde Allee remained active in the field of Biology throughout his life, taking over as managing editor of the journal, Physiological Zoology in 1957. He also chaired the Committee of Ecology of Animal Populations of National Research Council, was named fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1950 and was a trustee for the Marine Biological Laboratory from 1932 until his death in 1955.