13. How did the industrial
revolution in England offer an
example of natural selection?

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Oneof the classic examples natural
selection is regarding moths of
industrial zones England in the end
the 19th century and beginning of
the 20th . As the industrial
revolution the bark of the
that moths landed on
darker due to the released from
factories. The of light moths
then and was substituted by
population of dark moths the
mimicry of the moths in the new
protected them from
predators, .e., they had an adaptive
in that new environment.
moths in their turn the
negative effect of selection for
becoming more to predators and
were eliminated. Inthe open
forest from factories however it
experimentally verified that light
maintained their adaptive advantage
the dark moths continued be
more easily found predators.