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**A firsthand account of how a modest moth demonstrated Darwin's theory of natural selection.** The extraordinary tale of the humble peppered moth is at the very foundation of our acceptance of Darwinian evolution. When scientists in the early twentieth century discovered that a British population of the small, speckled __Biston betularia__ had become black over the course of mere decades in response to the Industrial Revolution's encroaching soot, the revelation cemented Darwin's theory of natural selection. This finding was the staple example of "evolution in action" until the turn of the millennium, when proponents of Creationism fomented doubts about the legitimacy of early experiments. In the midst of this upheaval, evolutionary biologist Bruce S. Grant and his contemporaries were determinedly building a dataset that would ultimately vindicate the theory of industrial melanism in the peppered moth and, by extension, the theory of natural selection itself. __Observing Evolution__ tells the remarkable story of this work. Shining a light on the efforts of scientists who tested Darwin's trailblazing theory, Grant chronicles the historical foundations of peppered moth research, the

Who reads Observing Evolution : Peppered Moths and the Discovery of Parallel Melanism?

Author

Bruce S Grant; Project Muse

Publisher

Johns Hopkins University Press

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781421441665

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Nature, Animals