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The story of the "peppered moth" near industrial cities in England is the iconic example of natural selection found in every textbook on evolution:
Dark moths on light colored bark are easy targets for hungry birds but are hidden on pollution darkened trees.
In pre-industrial England, the dark moths were rare as they were easily picked off by birds from light colored trees. In post-industrial England, the light colored moths became rare as they were easily picked off against dark soot colored trees. Evolution in action.![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMZfqrMfukVEZIqybe15c2Pzwep9eLqZtMeQk9JJljE5uKiCIAATK9Z6tRgFfMPO1HgU18Bx6PwCHSuKRKpQC9QPMYzmzOyI4u0G_HVLmTm_RMno6ynA0kLeDgGY818dE0nSam3UsiBRVZ/s320/moth+2.jpg)
Pictured here are some of the local fauna happily blending into the vast new expanse of Adirondack Oak siding we have introduced to Shag Lake. I could not help but wonder whether we may have shifted the local natural selection balance on the lake.
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"Evolution is 'a theory that's out there' and one that's 'got some gaps in it.'"
- Gov. Rick Perry, possibly the next president of the United States.
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