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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... experimental design of Kettlewell's classic experiments , and Austin ( Bob ) Platt , in addition to sharing his memories , conscientiously read over the manuscript for accuracy . I am very grateful to Ernst Mayr and Lynn Margulis for ...
... experiment . LIVERPOOL KETTLEWELL'S BRITAIN Rannoch Wood : EBF Ford and HBD Kettlewell meet while hunting for rare butterflies . North Sea . LEEDS Cambridge : Kettlewell's preliminary aviary experiments performed here . LONDON BRISTOL ...
... experiments , the moths of the photographs , had to support a heavy freight of intellectual baggage . The night - flying peppered moth , Biston betularia , normally off - white with a freckling of black scales , had been an object of ...
... experiments , equal numbers of peppered and melanic moths were released into the countryside where industry was ... experiment was conducted in the midland of England , where extensive industrialization had caused most lichens to die and ...
... experiments in textbooks have become zones of intellectual trench warfare , causing the atmosphere in the biological sciences to become so polarized that almost any criticism is viewed as creationist fodder . However , as one researcher ...
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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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