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Revision as of 06:26, 4 June 2004
Melanism: Evolution in Action is a science book by Dr Mike Majerus, published in 1998. It is an update of Bernard Kettlewell's book The Evolution of Melanism. ISBN 0198549822 .
Reviews
The book contains a very useful summary of Majerus' work on melanism in ladybirds and a review of the peppered moth story. It has been criticised for being uneven, for example it explains the basic principles of evolution such as the Hardy-Weinberg law in earlier sections, and in later sections includes graduate level concepts.
The Coyne Review
Jerry Coyne reviewed the book for Nature, comparing it to Sargent et al (1998). He also compared it to his dismay aged
This review has been criticised by Majerus and others of not being representative of the work. Other reviews such as by Laurence Cook fail to see the controversy coming. The (see creationism and the peppered moth)