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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... ( Biology ) . 3. Peppered moth . 4. Fraud in science . I. Title . QH375.H66 2002 576.8'2'092 - dc21 [ B ] 2002026315 ISBN 0-393-32525-3 pbk . W.W. Norton & Company , Inc. 500 Fifth Avenue , New York , NY 10110 www.norton.com W.W. Norton ...
... biology in 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 ...
... biology was doomed to be a second - rate ' his- torical ' science , incapable of ever being proved or disproved . Fighting against a sea of Lamarckians , saltationists , macro- mutationists , and ' random drift ' believers , a resolute ...
... biology . By the 1960s it had conquered all the textbooks , influencing the minds of four decades of biology students . It is the slam dunk of natural selection , the paradigmatic story that converts high school and college students to ...
... biology teacher , had been teaching the peppered moth story for several years . In 1986 he was reading a paper by Sir Cyril Clarke , a respected British peppered - moth researcher , when an offhand comment hit him like a spray of arctic ...
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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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