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MR. SPICER asks (January 16, p. 247), among other questions, “how does the peppered moth contrive to appear in the black country hatched with sooty wings that harmonise with the now smoke-stained bark whereon he must rest?” His point, I conceive, is that the melanic variety is due in some unexplained way to the inheritance of acquired characters.
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BACOT, A. The Melanic Variety of the “Peppered Moth.” . Nature 77, 294–295 (1908). https://doi.org/10.1038/077294a0
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