Black Moths
2 At least forty-six species of our British. moths have become black in our industrial areas within the last century, a change which nature would normally bring about in time measurable in thousands of years,’ said Dr. Bernard Kettlewell, of the Department of Zoology at Oxford University, talking in the BBC’s Eye Witness. Dr. Kettlewell has been working on this aspect of evolution in his laboratory. He has been able to show the ‘advantages gained by these new black forms of moths, their Capacity for survival and greater hardiness in the presence of bad feeding,"
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 786, 13 August 1954, Page 19
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100Black Moths New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 786, 13 August 1954, Page 19
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