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A STORY OF SELECTION
Before the Industrial Revolution, the vast majority of peppered moths had light colouration, which effectively camouflaged them against light-coloured trees and lichens. When industrial pollution killed off many of the lichens and blackened the trees with soot, most of the light-coloured moths fell to predators, while the dark-coloured ones flourished in their changed environment.
Cleaner air in recent times has seen the light-coloured moths return in numbers, perhaps not as creatures of habit, but creatures of habitat.
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