The beauty of Kettlewell's classic experimental demonstration of natural selection

BioScience

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 369-375

  Rudge, David W ^a  

^a WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beauty; Experiment; H. B. D. Kettlewell; Industrial melanism; Science education

Indexed keywords

EID: 17444401379     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1641/0006-3568(2005)055[0369:TBOKCE]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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