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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... theory was settled in Dayton , Tenn . , by Clarence Darrow - or in Beacon Wood by Bernard Kettlewell is sure to be disabused by Ms. Hooper's fascinating book . " -Wall Street Journal " Will appeal to the non - scientist who prizes a ...
... theory and practice . Hooper contributes significantly to history - of - science scholarship . " -Lynn Margulis , Distinguished University Professor of Geoscience , University of Massachusetts , winner of the National Medal of Science ...
... theory of natural selection was on shaky ground in the first part of the twentieth century . Apart from admittedly artificial laboratory studies of fruit flies , experimental evidence for Darwinian theory was lacking . There was doubt ...
... theory of evolution might explain why . Resting against soot - blackened back- grounds , the melanic moths were nearly invisible to birds , and so escaped being preyed upon . Thus more of them survived to reproduce . In rural areas , it ...
... 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 the peppered moth had kindled a smouldering ...
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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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