Of Moths and Men: An Evolutionary Tale
Judith Hooper
A search for Darwin's "missing evidence" chronicles the jealousies, rivalries, and emotional turmoil behind the twentieth-century's most famous evolutionary biology experiment.
Buy this book at AmazonAd- Publisher
- W. W. Norton
- Year
- 2002
- ISBN-13
- 9780393051216
- Genre
- Science & Technology
- Topics
- Evolutionary biologyScientific controversyHistory of science
Awards
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and TechnologyShortlisted(2002)
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