Ad
related to: the first peppered moth book series
Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Peppered Moth is a 2000 novel by English writer Margaret Drabble; it is her fourteenth published novel. [1] The novel follows the fictional experiences of three generations of women within one family, and contains several elements that are loosely based on Drabble's own biographical experience.
James William Tutt (26 April 1858–10 January 1911) was an English schoolteacher and entomologist.He was a founding editor of the journal Entomologists' Record from 1890 and published a landmark series on the British Lepidoptera in which he described numerous species of moths [1] and was among the first to notice industrial melanism in the pepper moth Biston betularia and was among the first ...
Drabble's fourteenth novel The Peppered Moth, published in 2001, treats of a young girl growing up in a mining town in South Yorkshire and spans four generations of her family. [1] Her fifteenth novel The Seven Sisters, published in 2002, is about a woman whose marriage has collapsed and off she goes to Italy. [1]
[20] [21] Coyne's statement that only two peppered moths had been found on tree trunks was incorrect, as the book gives the resting positions of 47 peppered moths Majerus had found in the wild between 1964 and 1996; twelve were on tree trunks (six exposed, six unexposed), twenty were at the trunk/branch joint, and fifteen resting on branches. [20]
[100] [101] [102] He gave a set of lectures based on this series at the University of Wales in 1931, and they were summarised in his book, The Causes of Evolution in 1932. [24] His first paper on the series in 1924 specifically deals with the rate of natural selection in peppered moth evolution.
He was widely noted for his work on moths and ladybirds and as an advocate of the science of evolution. He was also an enthusiastic educator [1] [2] and the author of several books on insects, [3] [4] evolution [5] [6] and sexual reproduction. [7] He is best remembered as an ardent supporter and champion of experiments on peppered moth ...
The experiments with the peppered moths, as described in this book, are arguably the most dramatic and best known case of adaptive evolution.For many people at that time, this was the first evidence that they could see evolution taking place in the world around them, and could see how fast evolution can go since Darwin came up with the hypothesis (Kettlewell, 1959).
Of Moths and Men is a book by journalist Judith Hooper about the Oxford University ecological genetics school led by E.B. Ford. The book specifically concerns Bernard Kettlewell 's experiments on the peppered moth which were intended as experimental validation of evolution .