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This change from predominantly light to dark forms in industrial areas is called industrial melanism. Note that this change was not due to pollution making the moths darker. The dark variety had ...

Where there should have been white or yellow it was replaced with black. This is called melanism and is a widely known mutation in the animal kingdom. Complete melanism like this has been seen ...