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Other well-studied examples of human-driven adaptive change include... the increase in the numbers of dark-winged forms compared with light-winged forms of the peppered moth in the United States and England after industrialization turned air sooty and polluted.

LOL! Apparently the dope who wrote this article didn't study the peppered moth hoax very well.

Remember those photos of white moths on dark tree trunks that we all saw in school? Those photos were staged. How do we know? For one thing, these moths light on the undersides of leaves, not tree trunks. Also, the photographer admitted that he glued the moths to the tree trunks.

How does staging a photo make the story a hoax? Did you expect the photographer to stake out a tree and wait for a moth to land on it? Population surveys in industrial areas had shown the dark-colored moth prevalent and in non-industrial areas the light-clored moth was prevalent. Them's the facts. You take the untenable position that a staged photograph that illustrates the study obviates the results of the study. That's like saying the results of crash tests obviate the knowledge of actual crashes.