Of Moths and Men: An Evolutionary Tale : the Untold Story of Science and the Peppered MothW. W. Norton & Company, 2002 - 377 стор. 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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... School of Ecological Genetics in the 1950s and in many cases bent over backwards to look up facts and locate ancillary source material . In matters scientific I am indebted to Bruce Grant , John Endler , Jerry Coyne , Richard Harrison ...
... preliminary aviary experiments performed here . LONDON BRISTOL Bristol Channel BOURNEMOUTH , Deanend Wood , Dorset : The site of Kettlewell's ' unpolluted ' experiment . Oxford : The Oxford School of Ecological Genetics . English Channel.
... school or college you will have glimpsed them in textbook photographs , posed on tree trunks , immortalized and still as figures in a classical frieze . They were , and still are , hailed as ' Darwin's missing evidence ' , evolution's ...
... School of Ecological Genetics . By his own 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 ...
... converts high school and college students to Darwin , the thundering left hook to the jaw of creationism . Craig Holdrege , a young American biology teacher , had xvii PROLOGUE : THE MOTHS OF OXFORD Prologue: The moths of Oxford.
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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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