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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Many of these wing colour pattern variants are textbook examples of natural selection and evolution. Iconic examples include the rapid increase in frequency of the melanic form of the British peppered ...