The most famous case of human-driven evolution was the peppered moth in the United Kingdom. It changed color as a reaction ... even when the change is rapid," said Dr. Graham McCulloch, a co ...

In the 1950s, Bernard Kettlewell tested the idea experimentally by marking several hundred peppered moths (typicals as well as melanics) and releasing them onto tree trunks in a polluted woodland near ...

An evolutionary biologist’s posthumous publication restores the peppered moth to its iconic status as a textbook example of evolution. Amid cuts to federal funding, US universities tighten budgets, ...

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 ...