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Originally posted by Sticks
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Originally posted by Lauren
What about when moths changed their colours after the industrial era? When they became darker to mesh with the dark tree's to hide from predators. Was this caused by a mutation?
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This is of course the Peppered Moth and the wikipedia article goes into this in more depths, but in summary
There are white moths and dark moths and in between moths. All that changed was the ratios between the populations. There was no mutation what so ever and yet it is still used as an example of Evolution, when it is nothing of the sort.
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Ok, fair enough. Thanks for the links, just wanted to clear this up.
(Although in theory that then means it's evidence for survival of the fittest, also outlined in Darwin's Evolutionary Theory).
And are we including survival of the sexiest in this? Because mutations have occurred (As far as I know) that is good evidence towards survival of the sexiest (E.g. Peacocks tail, although a hinderer in survival of fittest)