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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... insects 5 E.B. Ford and his enemies PART II ix xiii XV 3 5 34 68 91 6 Triumph in Birmingham 109 7 A most influential home movie 125 8 A reptile's leg into a bird's wing 146 9 The cost of selection 180 10 The goose that.
... insects in the world . You might say they were in the right place at the right time . If you have stud- ied biology in school or college you will have glimpsed them in textbook photographs , posed on tree trunks , immortalized and still ...
... insects thousands and tens of thousands are noc- turnal ... When the hour of dusk approaches , stand by a bed of evening primroses , and , as their great yellow blossoms suddenly open , watch the hawkmoths coming as swiftly as meteors ...
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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 |
341 | |
Glossary | 356 |
365 | |
367 | |
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