An evolutionary biologist’s posthumous publication restores the peppered moth to its iconic status as a textbook example of evolution. A series of rodent experiments showed that even with abundant ...

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 ...

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 ...