Understanding Natural Selection
| Education : Biology One of the best examples used in Britain of natural selection is with regard the peppered moth. Before the industrial revolution, the pale peppered moth were well camouflaged and the mutant black ones easily spotted and eaten. Advantage white! Then during the revolution, and after, pollution was so strong that the tree bark became quite sooty, and the mutant blended in better - meaning the pale moth got eaten instead. Put another way, over time the mutated moth became naturally selected to survive, and hence far more numerous in affected areas than the pale variety of the moth!
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