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 ...

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 ...

Researchers from the University of Liverpool have identified and dated the genetic mutation that gave rise to the black form of the peppered moth, which spread rapidly during Britain's industrial ...

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.

Peppered moths in England changed their camouflage during the Industrial Revolution, as buildings and trees around the city became darkened by soot and other pollution from early factories. New ...

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Although the peppered moth has been the poster child of Darwinian evolution since the late 19 th century, over the past decade there’s been a public debate questioning the validity of this textbook ...

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 ...