John Treherne
John Edwin Treherne (15 May 1929 – 23 September 1989) was an English entomologist who specialized in insect biochemistry and physiology and conducted extensive experimental studies. He was also a noted author, including the historically located The Galapagos Affair (1983) which he wrote after spending some time in the Galapagos conducting research. Treherne was born in Swindon and went to Headlands School, Swindon where his childhood friends included Desmond Morris and Diane Dors and studied zoology in Bristol University after which he spent a summer at Uppsala University, Sweden that made him interested in insect physiology. He was conscripted into the war under the Royal Army Medical Corps where he met Trevor Shaw. He recollected that they would discuss evolution while on guard duty and were punished to patrol in the snow by a superior officer, a Christian fundamentalist. He then agreed with the officer that fossils had been planted by the devil and spent time indoors next to a fire and explained in later life would humorously argue that pragmatism and opportunism had a role in the survival of the fittest. After the war, he joined the Insect Physiology Unit at Downing College in Cambridge under Vincent Wigglesworth as