Peppered moth/Talk

The peppered moth was, during much of the 20th century, believed to be an example that confirmed the theory of evolution, with popular photographs of camouflaged peppered moths resting on tree trunks used in textbooks as evidence for [natural selection. But biologists have known since the 1980s that peppered moths don't normally rest on tree trunks. The textbook photographs have been faked - many of them by pinning or gluing dead moths on desired backgrounds.

When University of Chicago evolutionary biologist [Jerry Coyne]? learned of this in 1998 - more than a decade after it was announced in the scientific literature - he wrote that he was "embarrassed" to find that the peppered moth story he had been teaching his students for years was seriously flawed. He compared his reaction to "the dismay attending my discovery, at age 6, that it was my father and not Santa who brought the presents on Christmas Eve."

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That's a good quote--I'll see where I can put it.

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