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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... lights , Ford had almost single - handedly rescued natural selection from oblivion in the 1920s and 1930s , when convinced Darwinists were few , and throughout his life he headed a scientific coterie ... light , lichen - xvi OF MOTHS AND MEN.
... light , lichen - covered tree trunks . In Darwinian language , natural selection favoured the black appearance in the grimy mill towns and the light one in rural , unpolluted woodlands . The camouflaged moths in each case were the ...
... are netted in sunny meadows , most moths must be caught after sundown using either light traps or pheromone traps baited with female moths . There are plenty of female butterfly collectors , but most moth devotees seem. 3.
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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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