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 ...

Dr Ilik Saccheri explains the science behind biology's most famous insect (video by Victoria Gill) Scientists have discovered the specific mutation that famously turned moths black during the ...

In 1848, an amateur lepidopterist in Manchester, England, caught an all-dark form of the off-white peppered moth. Some 16 years later, by which time the dark form was outnumbering the typical light ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers find that a single ancestor is responsible for the 'best example' of natural selection. A genetic analysis is unpicking the mysteries of one of the best-known examples of natural selection ...

The peppered moth was the most diagrammatic example of the phenomenon of industrial melanism that came to be recognised in industrial and smoke-blackened parts of England in the mid-nineteenth century ...

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 ...

This is the story of the moth that turned black when Britain had its Industrial Revolution. It is a story told in any school biology book as the canonical example of evolution in action. The light and ...