The peppered moth was the most diagrammatic example of the phenomenon of industrial melanism that came to be recognised in industrial and smoke-blackened parts of England in the mid-nineteenth century ...

The darkening color of the peppered moth during the nineteenth century, often used by high school textbooks as a case study for adaptation, was confirmed as an accurate example of natural selection in ...

William Feeney receives funding from the University of Queensland and the Australian-American Fulbright Commission. Changing wildlife: this article is part of a series looking at how key species such ...

A genetic analysis is unpicking the mysteries of one of the best-known examples of natural selection — the dark form of the peppered moth, which spread rapidly in nineteenth-century Britain's ...

The peppered moth has long been one of the most popular stories in all of evolution—for Darwinians and creationists alike. The Darwinians have always treated the sudden appearance in the mid-19th ...

“Of Moths and Men” can serve as an elegant introduction to the method of science and the ways of scientists. Judith Hooper tells the intricate tale of how a British scientist’s supposed “proof” of ...

In 1896, J.W. Tutt noted that typicals were well camouflaged against the light-colored lichens that grow on tree trunks in unpolluted woodlands; but in woodlands where industrial pollution has killed ...

Light- and dark-colored peppered moths. The black variety is thought to have evolved to camouflage moths on sooty surfaces during the Industrial Revolution. Wikimedia Commons Want to learn more about ...

Peppered moths and copycat butterflies owe their wing color-changing abilities to a single gene, two independent studies suggest. “This begins to unravel exactly what the original mutation was that ...

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Open almost any textbook dealing with biological evolution and you’ll probably find photographs of peppered moths resting on tree trunks—illustrating the classic story of natural selection in action.

In his otherwise excellent article, Jaap de Roode unwittingly perpetuates some more myths about the peppered moth (8 December 2007, p 46), and in particular about Bernard Kettlewell’s classic ...