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Moth Catcher - An Evolutionist's Journey Through Canyon and Pass (Paperback)
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Moth Catcher - An Evolutionist's Journey Through Canyon and Pass (Paperback)
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List price R584
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Discovery Miles 4 200
You Save R164 (28%)
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Biologist Michael Collins has been studying wild silk moths since
he was a boy. This family - which includes the largest and most
colorful of the North American moths - led Collins into a long
career as a scientist, and has provided him with significant
insights into the process by which new species evolve.""Moth
Catcher"" is Collins' engaging account of his development as a
scientist and of his groundbreaking research. The canyon and pass
environments of the American West offer a setting in which, since
the last Ice Age, organisms have adapted to new surroundings and
where many have formed new species. Collins has discovered in the
Sierra Nevada what geneticists call a ""hybrid zone"" where two
species interbreed. This hybrid zone is unusual because both sexes
are fertile, unlike lab-bred hybrids between the same silk moth
species. Collins explains how such hybrid populations serve as
laboratories in nature where the process of speciation can be
observed and studied.This book offers a fascinating view into the
work of a field scientist and the ways that evolution continues to
operate around us. Collins' colorful accounts of his fieldwork will
delight any reader who loves the outdoors and is captivated by the
diversity and interrelations of the life forms found there. And his
passion for his research and the fragile, exquisite creatures that
he studies will inspire a new appreciation of the wonders of the
natural world and the myriad life forms that occupy it.
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