Michael Eugene Nicolas Majerus was a British geneticist and professor of evolution at the University of Cambridge.
18 Facts About Michael Majerus
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Michael Majerus was a teaching fellow at Clare College, Cambridge.
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Michael Majerus was an enthusiast in Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection and became a world authority in his field of insect evolutionary biology.
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Michael Majerus was widely noted for his work on moths and ladybirds and as an advocate of the science of evolution.
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Michael Majerus is best remembered as an ardent supporter and champion of experiments on peppered moth evolution.
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The son of Fernand and Muriel Majerus, Michael Majerus took an early interest in insects.
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Michael Majerus got his first butterfly net at the age of four.
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Michael Majerus was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood, and graduated in botany and zoology from Royal Holloway College, London.
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Michael Majerus earned his PhD from Royal Holloway College on the study of the genetic control of larval colour in the angle shades moth.
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Michael Majerus worked for two years at Keele University as a research demonstrator.
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Michael Majerus used much of his scientific works to argue against creationism.
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Michael Majerus married Vicki Maclean in 1979, but their marriage was dissolved.
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Michael Majerus remarried Tamsin Harris in 1988 with whom he had two sons, and one daughter.
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The legacy of Michael Majerus was largely built on his fervent defence and experimental works on the peppered moth evolution.
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The publication of Melanism: Evolution in Action in 1998 in which Michael Majerus analysed and defended Kettlewell's experiments provoked severe criticism.
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Michael Majerus had experimented with 4,864 moths in Cambridgeshire, becoming the largest experiment in such manner.
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Michael Majerus was the president of the Amateur Entomologists' Society, a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society, and a Life Fellow of the British Naturalists' Association.
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Michael Majerus received a number of awards, including the Peter Scott Memorial Award in 2006, for his contributions to British Natural History.