The Evolution of Melanism

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The Evolution of Melanism: a study of recurring necessity; with special reference to industrial melanism in the Lepidoptera is a 1973 science book by the lepidopterist Bernard Kettlewell.

The book includes Kettlewell's original papers in the journal Heredity on his classic predation experiments on the peppered moth. It also covers Kettlewell's experiments in the Hebrides.

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  • The Evolution of Melanism: A study of recurring necessity; with special reference to industrial melanism in the Lepidoptera. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1973. ISBN 0-19-857370-7


Peppered moth
Biology
Overview, ecology, and genetics | Evolution of
Writers and researchers
Bernard Kettlewell (The Evolution of Melanism) | Mike Majerus (Melanism: Evolution in Action)
Cyril Clarke | Bruce Grant | E.B. Ford | Philip Sheppard | J.W. Tutt
Jonathan Wells (Icons of Evolution) | Judith Hooper (Of Moths and Men)