To register your interest please contact [email protected] providing details of the course you are teaching. David Lack's classic work on the finches of the Galapagos Islands (Darwin's ...

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

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 ...

Scientists simulated how drought conditions could change the song of Darwin’s medium ground finches by digitally modifying recordings to mimic what would happen as their beaks grew larger over ...

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 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 ...

Discover the science behind natural selection and evolution. Get the facts on survival of the fittest with ExtremeTech’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 ...

The Galapagos, an Ecuadorian province, is renowned for its diverse finch population, collectively known as Darwin’s finches due to their role in helping British naturalist Charles Darwin ...