This morning came the talk that everyone had been waiting for - Princeton professors Peter and Rosemary Grant presented their 33-year project on the adaptive radiation of Darwin's finches on the ...

"In my very first publication on the finches, back in 2001, I showed that changes in the beaks of Darwin's finches lead to changes in the songs they sing, and I speculated that, because Darwin's ...

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 ...

Darwin's Finches These drab but famous little birds of the Galapagos Islands are a living case study in evolution. Isolated in the South Pacific, they have developed 14 species from a common ancestor ...

The Java sparrow is ready for the video recording. As I hold it carefully in my hand in order to transfer it to the recording ...

Darwin thinks the birds are a jumbled mix of finches, wrens, and blackbirds, and of little importance. Six days later, Darwin returns to hear that his birds are not a jumble after all. Their beaks ...

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 ...

Bats in the noctilionoid group, like Darwin’s finches, have evolved an impressive variety of jaw and tooth adaptations to ...

Darwin did not have a great eureka moment on the Galapagos. He studied finches, tortoises and mockingbirds there, although not in enough detail to come to any great conclusions. But the steady ...

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.

Despite the fact that quantum mechanics rules the world at length scales many orders of magnitude below the size of Darwin's finches or Mendel's pea plants, quantum mechanics has a profound effect ...