The Peppered MothA portrait of four generations of one family, this story explores themes of inheritance, DNA, the individual's place in history and fate. It spans from Bessie Bawtry, a small child living in a Yorkshire mining town in 1905, to her granddaughter, listening to a lecture on genetic inheritance. |
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Page 65
... Cudworth by marriage ? The Cudworths are the largest named group in the assembly , for the meeting has been organized by Bill Cud- worth , who happens to be the President of the Cudworth One - Name Family Society . You can't tell much ...
... Cudworth by marriage ? The Cudworths are the largest named group in the assembly , for the meeting has been organized by Bill Cud- worth , who happens to be the President of the Cudworth One - Name Family Society . You can't tell much ...
Page 148
... Cudworth glimmered up at him as soon as he started to look for it . He'd joined the One - Name Society , contacted Bill Cudworth , and here he was . And it had all been quite interesting , hadn't it ? ' Quite interesting and quite ...
... Cudworth glimmered up at him as soon as he started to look for it . He'd joined the One - Name Society , contacted Bill Cudworth , and here he was . And it had all been quite interesting , hadn't it ? ' Quite interesting and quite ...
Page 161
... Cudworth drives quietly to Loughborough , through middle England . It is a complicated , cross - country route . The roads are not straight , as they are in Iowa , and he could have done with a companion to read the map . His wife Anna ...
... Cudworth drives quietly to Loughborough , through middle England . It is a complicated , cross - country route . The roads are not straight , as they are in Iowa , and he could have done with a companion to read the map . His wife Anna ...
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