Selective bird predation on the peppered moth : the last experiment of Michael
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L. M. Cook1, B. S. Grant2, I. J. Saccheri3 and J. Mallet4,5,* Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PT, UK Department of Biology, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA 23187, USA Institute of Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZB, UK Genetics Evolution and Environment, UCL, 4 Stephenson Way, London NW1 2HE, UK Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA *Author for correspondence ([email protected]).
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