It must have seemed terribly ironic to late University of Cambridge evolutionary biologist Michael Majerus, after dedicating nearly half a century to the study of peppered ... peppered moth of its ...

An evolutionary biologist’s posthumous publication restores the peppered moth to its iconic status as a textbook example of evolution. Amid cuts to federal funding, US universities tighten budgets, ...

Evolution by natural selection is the process of change in the characteristics of a population in response to the environment. Observations of peppered moths (Biston betularia) in the UK are an ...

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 ...