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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... lives underground . Faro can't smell smoke , but she can smell a nasty black oily fuel - like smell . Perhaps it's only ... live , but animals are obliged to move in search of food and prey , and they become conscious as they do so . The ...
... lives underground . Faro can't smell smoke , but she can smell a nasty black oily fuel - like smell . Perhaps it's only ... live , but animals are obliged to move in search of food and prey , and they become conscious as they do so . The ...
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... live there , in that place . ' ' So they believed the body was resurrected ? ' ' I think they believed that you had ... live . The painters were right . Those people look at us . They tell us that they were beautiful , and that in life ...
... live there , in that place . ' ' So they believed the body was resurrected ? ' ' I think they believed that you had ... live . The painters were right . Those people look at us . They tell us that they were beautiful , and that in life ...
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... live there , in that place . ' ' So they believed the body was resurrected ? ' ' I think they believed that you had ... live . The painters were right . Those people look at us . They tell us that they were beautiful , and that in life ...
... live there , in that place . ' ' So they believed the body was resurrected ? ' ' I think they believed that you had ... live . The painters were right . Those people look at us . They tell us that they were beautiful , and that in life ...
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