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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... watch pockets of a rubbed and faded crimson velvet embroidered with birds of pearl beading . These watch pockets filled Bessie with inexpressible delight . They were aristocratic , they were poetic , they were historic , they spoke of ...
... watch pockets of a rubbed and faded crimson velvet embroidered with birds of pearl beading . These watch pockets filled Bessie with inexpressible delight . They were aristocratic , they were poetic , they were historic , they spoke of ...
Page 114
... Watch and see if she sprouts . She may mutate at any moment . Dr Hawthorn is in the wings , waiting to spot a mutation . See her turn the corner into Petty Cury , a street of which the very name enchants – Bessie Bawtry , undergraduate ...
... Watch and see if she sprouts . She may mutate at any moment . Dr Hawthorn is in the wings , waiting to spot a mutation . See her turn the corner into Petty Cury , a street of which the very name enchants – Bessie Bawtry , undergraduate ...
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... watch is more robust . It has a heavy silver chain attached to it . Its face displays roman numerals , in a plain handsome black script , on a white ground . Faro manages to prise open the complicated layers of its back , inspects its ...
... watch is more robust . It has a heavy silver chain attached to it . Its face displays roman numerals , in a plain handsome black script , on a white ground . Faro manages to prise open the complicated layers of its back , inspects its ...
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