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 67
... interest- ing riddles facing humanity lies not in the future but in the past . ' How did we get here from there ? ' This is the question which , in its many aspects , obsesses him , and it must interest them , or they would not be here ...
... interest- ing riddles facing humanity lies not in the future but in the past . ' How did we get here from there ? ' This is the question which , in its many aspects , obsesses him , and it must interest them , or they would not be here ...
Page 116
... interest to the story of the Spanish flu in Breaseborough , then gave her charge a prescription for a placebo tonic , and sent her cheerily away . Bessie meekly drank up the bottle of mixture , and , two weeks into the summer term of ...
... interest to the story of the Spanish flu in Breaseborough , then gave her charge a prescription for a placebo tonic , and sent her cheerily away . Bessie meekly drank up the bottle of mixture , and , two weeks into the summer term of ...
Page 346
... interest in reincarnation is more fantastic , and more far - fetched . He has become obsessed by the mummy portraits of Ancient Egypt , and has tried to persuade Faro that she is the reincarnation of an unidentified Graeco - Roman ...
... interest in reincarnation is more fantastic , and more far - fetched . He has become obsessed by the mummy portraits of Ancient Egypt , and has tried to persuade Faro that she is the reincarnation of an unidentified Graeco - Roman ...
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