In the former study, Ilik Saccheri of the University of Liverpool, U.K., and colleagues crossed light- and dark-color moths and mapped their genetic differences. From a genetic sequence of 400,000 ...

Evolution by natural selection is the process of change in the characteristics of a population in response to the environment. Observations of peppered moths (Biston betularia) in the UK are an ...

An evolutionary biologist’s posthumous publication restores the peppered moth to its iconic status as a textbook example of evolution. In this webinar, Ed Boyden and Jerzy Szablowski will talk about ...

In the peppered moth ... the proportion of dark moths until light moths became very rare in industrial areas. The moth populations in these areas had evolved. This change from predominantly ...