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Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Of Lolita and Butterflies
They're both ephemeral (Lolita died near the end of the book) but I had no idea that Vladimir Nabokov was a Harvard curator of Lepidoptera. Now one of his great and dismissed theories of butterfly evolution has been vindicated by DNA analysis.
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