In the former study, Ilik Saccheri of the University of Liverpool, U.K., and colleagues crossed light- and dark-color moths and mapped their genetic differences. From a genetic sequence of 400,000 ...

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 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 ...

finally gave the hypothesis its due empirical validation by accessing biodiversity databases with thousands of images in a groundbreaking analysis of variation in moth coloration. The work is ...