Journalist Hooper offers an engaging account of H.B.D. Kettlewell's famous field experiments on the peppered moth, which were widely known as "Darwin's missing evidence," proof of natural selection in ...

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.

Most of us know that as living things evolve, they take on traits that help them thrive in their home environments. But how are certain traits "chosen" for future generations, and how are others cast ...

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It is difficult to distinguish caterpillars of the peppered moth from a twig. The caterpillars not only mimic the form but also the color of a twig. In a new study, researchers demonstrate that the ...

MR. SPICER asks (January 16, p. 247), among other questions, “how does the peppered moth contrive to appear in the black country hatched with sooty wings that harmonise with the now smoke-stained bark ...

Learn about the evolution of Black Peppered Moths from Ms. Kearney, a middle school Science teacher in Philadelphia. Watch this animation from Ms. Kearney to learn about the evolution of Black ...