The understanding of industrial melanism in the peppered moth (Biston betularia) (Lepidoptera: Geometridae)
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- 14 January 1987
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
- Vol. 30 (1), 31-44
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8312.1987.tb00286.x
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