OK. People may or may not know about the peppered moth experiment. Basically, I can’t be bothered to tell you about it, but it was supposed to be major proof of natural selection but the experiment has now come under quite serious scrutiny.

Anyway, the guy that did it, Bernard Something-or-other (or it might be Something Bernard) use to eat the moths he was experimenting with. To find out whether a particular moth he was experimenting with was palatable (tasty) or not, he would sit about and eat the moths.

I just thought that was a really funny mental image; this mad scientist sitting at a desk with pots of moths surrounding him, picking one up from time to time and munching on it thoughtfully. Then writing down his discoveries.