MIKE MAJERUS IS DEAD

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It is with great sadness that we note the passing of Professor Mike Majerus, a senior officer in the Army of Darwinism, who died of cancer in January at a tragically early age.

I would like to have claimed him as one of the `CFZ People` but although I admired him greatly, we never made contact with him. I was particularly interested in his work about the invasive Harlequin ladybird, but possibly his most important achievement was that he was "the first to show that female mating preferences could be genetically determined, thereby confirming a critical aspect of Darwin's theory of sexual selection by female choice".

He was also a staunch defender of the doctrine of the peppered moth as an indicator of evolution through natural selection, and was probably the most important person in the fight to re-establish the bona fides of this particular case after it had been discredited in the mid 1990s.

He will be sadly missed.