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

Name: Of Moths and Men Evolutionary Tale Untold Story of Science and the Peppered Moth
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ISBN: 9780393325256

ISBN-10: 0393325253

ISBN-13: 9780393325256

Edition: N/A

Authors: Judith Hooper

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Book details

List price: $26.95
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/17/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 406
Size: 6.10" wide x 8.30" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.166

Judith Hooper lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.



Acknowledgements


Map: Kettlewell's Britain


Prologue: The moths of Oxford






The moonlit world



What Darwin missed



Natural selection reduced to arithmetic



The private lives of insects



E.B. Ford and his enemies






Triumph in Birmingham



A most influential home movie



A reptile's leg into a bird's wing



The cost of selection



The goose that laid the golden eggs






'It was a bird feeder!'



A damn good story


Notes


Bibliography


Glossary


Chronology


Picture Credits


Index