The price we pay for the anticipation of our future is anxiety about it. Foretelling disaster is probably not… — Carl Sagan

There is a popular contention that half or more of the brain is unused. From an evolutionary point of view this would be quite extraordinary: why should it have evolved if it had no function? But actually the statement is made on very little evidence.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Note that in all this interaction between mutation and natural selection, no moth is making a conscious effort to adapt to a changed environment. The process is random and statistical.