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H. B. D. Kettlewell  

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  • Henry Bernard Davis Kettlewell, MD, an outstanding physician, lepidopterist and geneticist, is best known for his work on industrial melanism that so elegantly illustrates evolution in action it is now a feature of almost all basic biological texts. Kettlewell was also an energetic field researcher and co-founder of the significant Rothschild-Cockayne-Kettlewell Lepidoptera Collection in the British Museum. [Source: Encyclopedia of Anthropology; Kettlewell, H. B. D. (1907–1979)]

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