You are in: Manchester > Science > Science features > Darwin's moth: 'proof of evolution' The peppered moth (c) Olaf Leillinger by Richard Turner There’s no hiding the fact: the moth is the dowdy ...

More than 100 species of moths became darker to blend in with pollution during Britain’s industrial revolution, but did these different moth species all rely on the same gene to adapt? Two color ...

A genetic analysis is unpicking the mysteries of one of the best-known examples of natural selection — the dark form of the peppered moth, which spread rapidly in nineteenth-century Britain's ...

The darkening color of the peppered moth during the nineteenth century, often used by high school textbooks as a case study for adaptation, was confirmed as an accurate example of natural selection in ...

AT FIRST sight the peppered moth is a rather unprepossessing creature. Surrounded by its more brightly coloured relatives in a moth collection, drab old Biston betularia scarcely catches the eye. Yet ...

The molecular mechanics behind a classic example of evolution that dates back to Darwin's time may soon be revealed. [partner id="sciencenews" align="right"]As soot ...

The color of an animal can determine whether it lives or dies. If it’s easily spotted by predators, it may well become a meal. Hidden nicely against its background, an animal can escape its enemies ...

Peppered moths and copycat butterflies owe their wing color-changing abilities to a single gene, two independent studies suggest. “This begins to unravel exactly what the original mutation was that ...