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 129
... story is full of oddities and lacunae . It is not clear why they married at all . But they did . If this story were merely a fiction , it would be possible to fill in these gaps with plausible incidents , but the narrator here has to ...
... story is full of oddities and lacunae . It is not clear why they married at all . But they did . If this story were merely a fiction , it would be possible to fill in these gaps with plausible incidents , but the narrator here has to ...
Page 159
... story , a dull story , but nevertheless she finds it full of mystery . How had they managed it ? What had made them want to manage it ? How had they got their passports and visa papers ? How had they known how to get them ? Why had they ...
... story , a dull story , but nevertheless she finds it full of mystery . How had they managed it ? What had made them want to manage it ? How had they got their passports and visa papers ? How had they known how to get them ? Why had they ...
Page 326
... story well . She told it better than her mother did . She was able to make it more amusing than her mother could . Faro had been quite fond of her poor old grandma . The mitochondrial DNA of Bessie Barron lives on in her granddaughter ...
... story well . She told it better than her mother did . She was able to make it more amusing than her mother could . Faro had been quite fond of her poor old grandma . The mitochondrial DNA of Bessie Barron lives on in her granddaughter ...
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