Shedding Toxins: A Surprising Role for Industrial Melanism

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It seems obvious that when Britain’s trees were covered in black coal soot during the industrial revolution that the numbers of black-colored peppered moths would increase. But several recent studies indicate that a change to black coloration in creatures in response to pollution, called industrial melanism, may not be directly related to camouflage.

Claire Goiran studies marine ecology for the University of … More…

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