Researchers designed a simulation to show when finch species started to diverge.
They say that hindsight is 20/20, and though the theory of ecological speciation -- which holds that new species emerge in response to ecological changes -- seems to hold in retrospect, it has been ...
Changes in finch beaks, driven by environmental factors, also alter their songs, which affects how the birds recognize their ...
because Darwin's finches use songs to attract mates, then song changes related to beak evolution could perhaps catalyze ecological speciation." But, at the time, Podos had no smoking-gun ...
The finches that call Ecuador’s Galápagos Islands home are biological rock stars, as they provided a key piece of evidence for Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. One reason for this is how new ...
These birds are collectively known as Darwin’s finches because they helped British naturalist Charles Darwin uncover the ...
The Galapagos is a province in Ecuador well known for the diversity of finches, who helped British naturalist Charles Darwin ...
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 ...