George Taylor Porritt
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George Taylor Porritt
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George Taylor Porritt (1848–1927) was an English wool merchant, naturalist and lepidopterist from Huddersfield, Yorkshire. He is best known for his work on the effects of industrial pollution on the changes in frequency of melanin in populations of the peppered moth, which has since become a prominent case study in understanding the effects of pollution on animal populations. He attended Huddersfield College alongside future prime minister H. H. Asquith. He became a prominent authority on entomo
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English naturalist
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