In response to human-induced environmental changes, New Zealand’s stoneflies have changed color. It is the clearest evidence ...

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 ...

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 this activity, your class will use images of historic peppered moth specimens from the Museum's collection to understand variation in a population. They will then play the lucky landing game to ...

This is an artificial moth used in the field experiment. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions ...

Meanwhile, traits not conducive to survival gradually fall away. The original peppered moth (above) and the dark peppered moth (below). Credit: Gail Hampshire/Wikimedia Commons A famous example of ...

And because they cannot digest a lot of the plant matter, they defecate more than 100 times per day. Peppered moths can be white with black speckles, primarily black, or intermediate between the two.

In the peppered moth population of Great Britain there is variation in the colour of the moth’s bodies. Some moths have a light body; some have a dark, or melanic body. Body colour is an ...