The peppered moth has long been one of the most popular stories in all of evolution—for Darwinians and creationists alike. The Darwinians have always treated the sudden appearance in the mid-19th ...

This is the story of the moth that turned black when Britain had its Industrial Revolution. It is a story told in any school biology book as the canonical example of evolution in action. The light and ...

The transformation of the insect's wings from the pale mottled pattern from which it took its name to a uniform black in the second half of the 19th century is among the most eloquent demonstrations ...

In 1848, an amateur lepidopterist in Manchester, England, caught an all-dark form of the off-white peppered moth. Some 16 years later, by which time the dark form was outnumbering the typical light ...

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 ...

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.

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 took ...

As soot from the coal-fired power stations of 19th century England belched into the air, even the insects were unable to escape the effect. Thousands of peppered moths turned from white to black to ...

It's survival of the fittest and companies who fail to adapt to their ever-changing environments and ever-demanding customers, simply won't survive. One industry that knows how to respond is the ...

In an iconic evolutionary case study, a black form of the peppered moth rapidly took over in industrial parts of the UK during the 1800s, as soot blackened the tree trunks and walls of its habitat.