Bernard Kettlewell
id:
bernard-kettlewell-203-16812472
title:
Bernard Kettlewell
text:
Henry Bernard Davis Kettlewell was a British geneticist, lepidopterist and medical doctor, who performed research on the influence of industrial melanism on peppered moth coloration, showing why moths are darker in polluted areas. This experiment is cited as a classic demonstration of natural selection in action. After live video record of the experiment with Niko Tinbergen, Sewall Wright called the study as "the clearest case in which a conspicuous evolutionary process has actually been observe
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
British lepidopterist (1907–1979)
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Kettlewell
date created:
2004-02-25T13:02:42Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T19:00:00Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q822510","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q822510"}
image:
fields total:
13
integrity:
15