The peppered moth story is solid
Reblogged from Why Evolution Is True:
The paradigmatic example of “natural selection in action” is the case of industrial melanism in the peppered moth, Biston betularia (see the Wikipedia article for a good summary). Briefly, the moth has several genetic forms, the most famous being the “typica” or white form, which is ivory colored with peppery black spots: And the carbonaria form, which is pure black. These forms differ by mutations at a single gene, with the carbonaria allele (gene form) dominant over the typica form. (That is, if you …
#Creationists and other anti-#evolution-ists take note!!




