(September 15, 2016 at 12:10 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote:(September 15, 2016 at 11:23 am)RoadRunner79 Wrote: I don't think that it is that controversial, that the moths in the photo where dead and glued in place for the picture.... and it would seem that the issue is still assumptions based on limited data in either case.
Quote:... the photos played no part in the scientific research or its conclusions.
http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/CB/CB601_1.html
What exactly is your point here? That science is complex? You'll dance around any way you can to avoid the obvious conclusion that differential selective pressures on peppered moths resulted in a change of allele frequency in the species. That conclusion is indisputable. You're just bringing up irrelevancies to cloud the issue.
I think it is very reasonable, to infer that different selective pressures likely changed the frequency of darker moths found in the region although it could be a coincidence. But especially since shortly after the pollution cleared, the frequency also changed, I don't think this is an unreasonable assumption. The rest of the story seems a little less clear.
