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Nature 396, 35-36 (5 November 1998) | doi:10.1038/23856
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BOOK REVIEWED-Melanism: Evolution in Action
by Michael E. N. Majerus
Oxford University Press: 1998. 338,pp.
£55, $105 (hbk), £23.95, $45 (pbk)
From time to time, evolutionists re-examine a classic experimental study and find, to their horror, that it is flawed or downright wrong. We no longer use chromosomal polymorphism in Drosophila pseudoobscura to demonstrate heterozygous advantage, flower-colour variation in Linanthus parryae to illustrate random genetic drift, or the viceroy and monarch butterflies to exemplify Batesian mimicry.
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