The Epigenetic Caterpillar: An Alternative to the Darwinian view of the Peppered Moth Phenomenon

Briefly, the Darwinian model would interpret the industrial melanism of moth as follows:
a change in color from light to dark and back again in generations of moths due to industrial smog in England in the 19th century, is classically explained as the darker colored moths had an advantage that protected them from bird predation as they possessed the most adaptable genetic variation that helped them avoid the birds (the bird is the environmental selector in this case). Darker moths were more ...