There are now at least 13 species of finches on the Galapagos ... is known as adaptive radiation. In his memoir, The Voyage of the Beagle, Darwin noted, almost as if in awe, "One might really ...

That is among the conclusions in a new study testing the importance of 'first arrival' in controlling adaptive radiation of species, a hypothesis famously proposed for 'Darwin's Finches,' birds ...

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 ...

They offer great examples of adaptive radiation in mammals — much like Darwin’s finches of the Galapagos, whose varied beaks offer a lovely view of natural selection at work. But Darwin didn ...

Before Schluter’s observations of the Galapagos finches ... “The Ecology of Adaptive Radiation,” as one of the most important on evolution since Darwin’s “Origin of the Species.” ...

South America’s “foxes” are the most diverse collection of canids on the planet, and they were initially documented scientifically by none other than legendary naturalist Charles Darwin ... remarkable ...

The Galápagos finches are a classic example of adaptive radiation. Their common ancestor arrived on the islands a few million years ago. Since then, a single species has evolved into different species ...

The researchers have created a detailed adaptive landscape to predict ... Therefore, "the diversity of life results from the radiation of species, which specialize based on their environment. In the ...

In research published in Science, biologists from the University of Massachusetts Amherst have identified a key connection between ecology and speciation in Darwin's finches, famous residents of ...