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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... butterfly collecting without proper boots , who leave wife and children for an idea , who live in a trailer to avoid paying income tax , who arrange the scientific evidence to arrive at the desired result . " -Dava Sobel , author of ...
... unwavering support and delightful humour of my agent , Michael Carlisle , who believed in moths from the start . Thanks also to Steve Cox for his admirable copy - editing . He told me about the odors of butterflies - musk X OF MOTHS AND ...
... butterflies ; about the piercing sound given out by the monstrous caterpillar of a Malayan hawkmoth , an improvement ... butterfly in the Brazilian forest which imitates the whir of a local bird . He told me about the incredible artistic ...
... butterflies . North Sea . LEEDS Cambridge : Kettlewell's preliminary aviary experiments performed here . LONDON BRISTOL Bristol Channel BOURNEMOUTH , Deanend Wood , Dorset : The site of Kettlewell's ' unpolluted ' experiment . Oxford ...
... butterfly , it's a moth . ' Some might say that butterflies are Lepidoptera that people like while moths are ones they don't like , and yet as nocturnal flyers , linked to darkness and phases of the moon , moths are in many ways more ...
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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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