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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... 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 bird's wing 146 9 The cost of selection 180 10 The goose that.
... birds , and so escaped being preyed upon . Thus more of them survived to reproduce . In rural areas , it was just the opposite . There it was the normal , speckled variety of the peppered moth that had the advantage , well camouflaged ...
... birds , 26 were peppered [ pale ] and 164 were melanic ... The same experiment was conducted in the midland of England , where extensive industrialization had caused most lichens to die and trees became darkened by soot . The results of ...
... birds selectively picking off the conspicuous ones ... And now someone who has researched the moth for 25 years reports having seen only two moths sitting on tree trunks . " 2 What about the lichens , the soot , the camouflage , the birds ...
... bird behaviourist when he took a post in 1963 at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst . A picture - postcard town with a garrulously populist ' town meeting ' government and an old - fashioned New England common at its heart ...
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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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