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3 unusual facts about Bernard Kettlewell


Bernard Kettlewell

The book includes the claim that, mostly for shock value, Kettlewell and Helen Spurway, then the graduate student (and later the wife) of J.B.S. Haldane, were known to catch live moths and eat them whole.

Kettlewell's peppered moth research has been disputed by author Judith Hooper in her 2002 book Of Moths and Men.

Ecological genetics

Philip Sheppard, Cyril Clarke, Bernard Kettlewell and A.J. Cain were all strongly influenced by Ford; their careers date from the post WWII era.



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