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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... Scientist -Los Angeles Times " A riotous story of ambition and deceit .... What raises this book from an excellent work of science history to a winning tale is Hooper's deft dissection of the mating and working habits of the scientists ...
... 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 , and megalomaniac founder of the Oxford School of ...
... scientists , he began to realize that the standard theory of industrial melanism , treated as gospel in the textbooks , was full of holes . As it turned out , Holdrege was not the only one to notice the cracks in the icon . Before long ...
... scientists , preserved in the memories of friends , colleagues and family , as well as in letters bound in satin ribbons and archived at the New Bodleian Library at Oxford . At the very moment that the peppered moth experiments were ...
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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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