The accompanying Microsoft PowerPoint presentation is also available as a pdf file. An interactive game to simulate how evolution works with Biston betularia Wing vein patterns; this information is found in iNaturalist.org at Wiki - American Peppered Moths. Moths described in 1758 Moths of Asia Moths of Europe Moths of North America Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus
As a result of the relatively simple and easy-to-understand circumstances of the adaptation, the peppered moth has become a common example used in explaining or demonstrating natural selection to laypeople and classroom students through simulations. The first carbonaria morph was recorded by Edleston in Manchester in 1848, and over the subsequent years it increased in frequency.
On a historical note, it was one of the first animals to be identified as being camouflaged with countershading to make it appear flat (shading being the main visual cue that makes things appear solid), in a paper by Edward Bagnall Poulton in 1887.
The above data would appear to support this. Further support for these resting positions is given from experiments watching captive moths taking up resting positions in both males (Mikkola, 1979; 1984) and females (Liebert and Brakefield, 1987). Majerus, et al., (2000) have shown that peppered moths are cryptically camouflaged against their backgrounds when they rest in the boughs of trees.
The above data would appear to support this. Further support for these resting positions is given from experiments watching captive moths taking up resting positions in both males (Mikkola, 1979; 1984) and females (Liebert and Brakefield, 1987). Majerus, et al., (2000) have shown that peppered moths are cryptically camouflaged against their backgrounds when they rest in the boughs of trees.
The above data would appear to support this. Further support for these resting positions is given from experiments watching captive moths taking up resting positions in both males (Mikkola, 1979; 1984) and females (Liebert and Brakefield, 1987). Majerus, et al., (2000) have shown that peppered moths are cryptically camouflaged against their backgrounds when they rest in the boughs of trees.
These are of intermediate dominance, but this is not complete (Majerus, 1998). === Form names === In continental Europe, there are three morphs: the white morph typica (syn.
This is the transcript of Michael Majerus' lecture delivered to the British Humanist Association on Darwin Day 2004. The Peppered Moth: The Proof of Darwinian Evolution.
This is the transcript of Majerus' lecture given at the European Society for Evolutionary Biology meeting on 23 August 2007.
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