biography
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Kettlewell, Henry (Bernard David)
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1907–79)
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| biography:
| Geneticist and entomologist, born in Howden, Hull, NE England, UK. He studied at Cambridge and St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, and from 1952 held various posts in the genetics unit of the zoology department, Oxford. In his best known research he showed that the dark coloration developed by the peppered moth in industrial areas had a greater survival value than the original light coloration it had in rural areas, thus demonstrating the effectiveness of natural selection as an evolutionary process. |
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