A Reason For Everything
• Hodgepodge
From a review of A Reason For Everything, a collection of portraits of evolutionary theorists:
More endearing a personality, if no less bizarre, is EB Ford, described by Richard Dawkins, who knew him as a "fastidious old bachelor", and by others as a "wicked queen". Ford worked on the famous peppered moth, whose dark variety thrives in polluted cities - a classic if controversial illustration of natural selection in action. "In combining science and camp," says Kohn, Ford himself was an "exotic specimen", who liked to speak of "my friend the Pope", and enjoyed greeting his colleague’s au pair with the inquiry: "How is your pussy?"
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Posted by: josh | September 6, 2004 10:08 AM