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Of Moths and Men: An Evolutionary Tale: The Untold Story of Science and the Peppered Moth

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Of Moths and Men: An Evolutionary Tale: The Untold Story of Science and the Peppered Moth - Hooper, Judith
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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 ...

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Of Moths and Men: An Evolutionary Tale: The Untold Story of Science and the Peppered Moth 2004, WW Norton & Co, New York

ISBN-13: 9780393325256

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