Of Moths and Men: An Evolutionary Tale: The Untold Story of Science and the Peppered Moth by Judith Hooper

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

Judith Hooper

377 pages first pub 1987 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative slow-paced
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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 expe...

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