INDUSTRIAL MELANISM


Meaning of INDUSTRIAL MELANISM in English

[industrial melanism] n (1943): genetically determined melanism as a population phenomenon esp. in moths in which the proportion of dark individuals tends to increase due to differential predation esp. by birds which more easily find and eat lighter-colored individuals in habitats darkened by industrial pollution

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