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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... scientific taste , but written with a bravado and psychological insight that would have appalled the misogynist world of Henry Ford and his friends . " -EMBO Reports " This is a marvelous tale . " " An illuminating story of man and ...
... locate ancillary source material . In matters scientific I am indebted to Bruce Grant , John Endler , Jerry Coyne , Richard Harrison and Douglas Futuyma . Will Provine allowed me ramble through his library and his expansive mind.
... scientific hero . Dr H.B.D. Kettlewell was not a research scientist by training but a medical doctor , a charis- matic and volatile amateur lepidopterist . He had been recruited to Oxford by E.B. Ford , famous geneticist , eccentric don ...
... scientific feud , at first conducted in the footnotes of journals and , later , in textbook wars , away from the public eye . The ferocity of the debate was puzzling and intriguing to me . The peppered moth story seemed fairly ...
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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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