Of Moths and Men An Evolutionary Tale Author:Judith Hooper Mutant moths and feuding scientists: the real story behind the most famous experiment in twentieth-century evolutionary biology. H. B. D. Kettlewell was a British doctor who caught butterflies and moths as an all-consuming hobby. He went into the English woods with a mission -- to catch "evolution in action" among the now-famous pepper... more »ed moths. His work became "Darwin's missing evidence," a fixture in biology textbooks for half a century. Only recently has new research brought a different story to light. Compellingly told, Of Moths and Men reveals Kettlewell as a deluded scientist who distorted facts and suppressed evidence he didn't like. Tyrannized by his mentor, the powerful E. B. Ford -- an imperious misogynist and eccentric Oxford don who was a Darwinian zealot determined to crush all enemies in his path -- Kettlewell ended his life a suicide. A story of hubris and heartbreak, Of Moths and Men reveals as much about the internecine battles of science as it does about the mysteries of evolution. Includes 16 pages of black and white photographs.« less