The Rise and Fall of the Carbonaria Form of the Peppered Moth¶
Cook, L. M. (2003). The Rise and Fall of the Carbonaria Form of the Peppered Moth. The Quarterly Review of Biology.
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- As soot darkened tree bark across industrial Britain through the nineteenth century, the melanic form gained a strong survival advantage against visual predation by birds, and its frequency climbed toward near-fixation in polluted regions within a few decades — among the fastest documented episodes of natural selection in the wild
This sourceThe review of melanic carbonaria frequencies showing a 90%-plus plateau in polluted northern England by the mid-twentieth century under strong selection, with a cryptic advantage against bird predation where pollution was heavy.
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- As soot darkened tree bark across industrial Britain through the nineteenth century, the melanic form gained a strong survival advantage against visual predation by birds, and its frequency climbed toward near-fixation in polluted regions within a few decades — among the fastest documented episodes of natural selection in the wild
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