Scientists long after Darwin spent years trying to understand the process that had created so many types of finches that differed mainly in the size and shape of their beaks. Most recently ...

How do you know that finches' beak depth is heritable? You can see from Figure 2 that there is a correlation between the parents' and offsprings' beak size. How did the finch population change ...

Darwin’s Finches on Daphne Major Island, New Edition,” by evolutionary biologists Peter Grant and Rosemary Grant is the ...

David Lack's classic work on the finches of the Galapagos Islands (Darwin's Finches) was first published in 1947; few books have had such a great impact on evolutionary biology, indeed it is still one ...

Using data on four species of Darwin's finches on the Galápagos Islands, researchers led by McGill University have confirmed ...

By Liz Kimbrough In the sunbaked Galápagos Islands, a male finch perches on a branch, hearing what sounds like another bird’s ...

As the legend goes, Darwin sailed as ship's naturalist on the Beagle, visited the Galápagos archipelago in the eastern Pacific Ocean, and there beheld giant tortoises and finches. The finches ...

To understand the story of evolution—both its narrative and its mechanism—modern Darwins don't have to guess. They consult genetic scripture. Consider, for instance, the famous finches of the ...

nbsp, This is where Darwin and his finches come in. His study of the finches (I know they are not truly finches) on the Galapagos describes a single species that diversified and evolved ...

On the Galapagos Islands, Darwin observed how the beaks of finches differed. Only later, would he realise why this happened. Today, we can see how the different beaks serve different purposes.