Shortly after, he used the peppered moth as the example in a vivid description of selection for crypsis by predators in a changing environment (Tutt, 1894), later repeated even more emphatically ...

A look at the controversy about industrial melanism in the peppered moth. The rise ... No force other than selection could have caused such striking and directional change. Hooper's grudging ...

In an iconic evolutionary case study, a black form of the peppered ... of natural selection was formally outlined by Darwin and Wallace. Image caption, Time for a new edition: The moth's tale ...

The story of the peppered moth is one of natural selection. A previously scarce but existing group (dark moths) became more common under favourable conditions (dark trees) than a previously ...

Tutt attributed the increase in the proportion of melanic forms to natural selection. In the 1950s, Bernard Kettlewell tested the idea experimentally by marking several hundred peppered moths ...

Did we evolve through a process of natural selection, as Charles Darwin proposed? Or is the peppered moth, and therefore all life including Man, the work of a divine Creator? In the early 19th ...

Much of the cold water poured over peppered moths, and other putative examples of selection, has come from the US. American moths take the contrarian stance too, dark varieties commonly populating ...

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 ...

Wikimedia Commons Want to learn more about natural selection? Just look for a black peppered moth—Biston betularia. During the early 19th century in Britain, the moths used to have salt-and ...

AT FIRST sight the peppered moth is a rather unprepossessing creature. Surrounded by its more brightly coloured relatives in a moth collection, drab old Biston betularia scarcely catches the eye.

Scientists have discovered the specific mutation that famously turned moths black during the Industrial Revolution. In an iconic evolutionary case study, a black form of the peppered moth rapidly ...