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

"An engrossing narrative" (Wall Street Journal) that does for evolutionary biology what The Double Helix did for DNA.

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,...