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 ...

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 ...

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.

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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 ...

Iconic examples include the rapid increase in frequency of the melanic form of the British peppered moth Biston betularia, driven by the sootier and darker environment caused by carbon burning and ...