Of Moths and Men: An Evolutionary Tale : the Untold Story of Science and the Peppered MothW. W. Norton & Company, 2002 - Всего страниц: 377 In the 1950s, a British physician and amateur lepidopterist named H. B. D. Kettlewell went into the English woods to catch "evolution in action" among the now-famous Peppered Moths. His work became "Darwin's missing evidence," an evolutionary experiment as influential as any in the last century. Compellingly told, Of Moths and Men reveals Kettlewell to be a deluded scientist, a man tyrannized by his mentor, the powerful E. B. Ford, an imperious, eccentric Oxford don, a Darwinian zealot determined to crush all enemies in his path. In a revelatory, controversial work that will be debated for years to come, Judith Hooper uncovers the intellectual rivalries, petty jealousies, and faulty science behind one of the most famous experiments and myths in the history of evolutionary biology. Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. |
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... Darwin's theory was settled in Dayton , Tenn . , by Clarence Darrow - or in Beacon Wood by Bernard Kettlewell is sure to be disabused by Ms. Hooper's fascinating book . " -Wall Street Journal " Will appeal to the non - scientist who ...
... Darwin's voy- age on the HMS Beagle to present - day critics of Kettlewell's science . And it is a story well worth reading . " -Salon " A lively history ... illustrated with fascinating but disturbing portraits of the principals ...
... Darwin missed 3 Natural selection reduced to arithmetic 4 The private lives of insects 5 E.B. Ford and his enemies PART II ix xiii XV 3 5 34 68 91 6 Triumph in Birmingham 109 7 A most influential home movie 125 8 A reptile's leg into a ...
... Darwin's missing evidence ' , evolution's ' prize horse ' , ' evolution in action ' . Yet the history of the peppered moth has lately become a battlefield , the controversy growing more inflamed by the moment . At first glance it is ...
... Darwin's own time . In the mid- nineteenth century a dark ( ' melanic ' ) form of this moth appeared in the industrialized Midlands of the British Isles . These strange black moths thrived and grew more numerous wherever there was ...
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The moonlit world | 5 |
What Darwin missed | 17 |
Natural selection reduced to arithmetic | 36 |
The private lives of insects | 70 |
EB Ford and his enemies | 93 |
Triumph in Birmingham | 111 |
A most influential home movie | 127 |
A reptiles leg into a birds wing | 148 |
The goose that laid the golden eggs | 207 |
It was a bird feeder | 243 |
A damn good story | 280 |
Notes | 318 |
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Glossary | 356 |
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