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== External links == {{Commons|Biston betularia}} * [[Bruce Grant (biologist)|Bruce Grant]] has written several papers on melanism in the peppered moth which are listed on [http://bsgran.people.wm.edu his home page]. * Online lecture: [https://web.archive.org/web/20070702152449/http://www.streaming.mmu.ac.uk/cook/ "The rise and fall of the melanic Peppered Moth"] presented by Laurence Cook. * {{cite web |title=Moonshine: Why the Peppered Moth remains an Icon of Evolution |last=Young |first=Matt |publisher=Department of Physics, Colorado School of Mines |ref=none |url=http://www.talkreason.org/articles/moonshine.cfm |access-date=2009-01-03}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20110724145125/http://www.gen.cam.ac.uk/research/personal/majerus/Darwiniandisciple.pdf The Peppered Moth: Decline of a Darwinian Disciple]. This is the transcript of [[Michael Majerus]]' lecture delivered to the [[British Humanist Association]] on [[Darwin Day]] 2004. * [https://web.archive.org/web/20110615081639/http://www.gen.cam.ac.uk/research/personal/majerus/Swedentalk220807.pdf 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. The accompanying [[PowerPoint]] presentation is [https://web.archive.org/web/20110615081721/http://www.gen.cam.ac.uk/research/personal/majerus/SwedenPepperedmoth2007Ppt.pdf also available]. *{{cite journal |title=Industrial Melanism in the Peppered Moth, ''Biston betularia'': An Excellent Teaching Example of Darwinian Evolution in Action |last=Majerus |first=Michael E. N. |author-link=Michael Majerus |year=2009 |journal=Evolution: Education and Outreach |volume=2 |issue=1 |pages=63β74 |ref=none |doi=10.1007/s12052-008-0107-y |doi-access=free |quote=Accusations of data fudging and scientific fraud in the case are found to be vacuous.}} * On 19 June 2009, [https://web.archive.org/web/20001219165200/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ Telegraph.co.uk] published [https://web.archive.org/web/20090622154536/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/5577724/Moth-turns-from-black-to-white-as-Britains-polluted-skies-change-colour.html an article] on this evolutionary phenomenon and implored UK readers to visit the [http://www.mothscount.org Moths Count website] and record their observations of local moths, in an effort to help increase the available data for researchers. {{Pepperedmoth}} [[Category:Biology experiments]] [[Category:Evolution of insects]] [[Category:Peppered moth|Evolution]] [[Category:Selection]]
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