Retelling Experiments: H.B.D. Kettlewell's Studies of Industrial Melanism in Peppered Moths

Biology and Philosophy

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 39-54

  Hagen, Joel B ^a  

^a RADFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution; Experiment; Industrial melanism; Natural selection

Indexed keywords

BISTON BETULARIA; LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 0008203301     PISSN: 01693867     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006576518561     Document Type: Article

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