Cyril Clarke
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Sir Cyril Astley Clarke (22 August 1907–22 November 2000) was a physician, lepidopterist and geneticist.
He was educated at Wyggestson Grammar School in Leicester, Oundle School, and then at Gonville and Caius College at Cambridge University.
From 1959 he started running a moth trap near his house in Caldy Common; this has been continued after his death. He also worked with Philip Sheppard.
He developed a technique for preventing rhesus babies, by injecting antibodies into those affected.
He was married to Lady Féo Clarke, who died in 1998. They had three sons.
| Ecology | Genetics | Evolution | Taxonomy | Predation experiments |
| Researchers: Bernard Kettlewell (The Evolution of Melanism) | Mike Majerus (Melanism: Evolution in Action) | Laurence Cook | Cyril Clarke | Bruce Grant | E.B. Ford | Philip Sheppard J.W. Tutt |
| Alternative theories: Craig Millar | Ted Sargent |
| Creationism: Jonathan Wells (Icons of Evolution) | Judith Hooper (Of Moths and Men) |
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