Sentences with phrase «industrial melanism»
The industrial melanism mutation in British peppered moths is a transposable element.
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«I think it's remarkable to find industrial melanism in organisms as different as moths and seasnakes!»
Polluted waters may be driving more sea snakes to go all black, a sign of an evolutionary phenomenon called industrial melanism, Susan Milius reported in «Polluted reefs may favor dark snakes» (SN: 9/16/17, p. 14).
For instance, one admits that in much of evolution (probably all above the bacteria), evolutionary changes involve enormous numbers of genes, rather than a selection of one or two particular genes (although that occurs in a few instances, possibly, for instance, in industrial melanism).
Yet Johnson totally ignores all this evidence for evolution, arguing instead that he has adequately covered the evidence by mentioning and ridiculing the case of industrial melanism.