There are now at least 13 species of finches on the Galapagos Islands ... In his memoir, The Voyage of the Beagle, Darwin noted, almost as if in awe, "One might really fancy that, from an original ...

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 ...

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 ...

The journey of young Charles ... 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.

Charles Darwin was born in Shropshire ... as the shape of their beaks varied. On the Galapagos Islands, Darwin observed how the beaks of finches differed. Only later, would he realise why this ...

Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural ... Darwin did not have a great eureka moment on the Galapagos. He studied finches, tortoises and mockingbirds there, although not in enough detail ...

This year marks the two-hundredth anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth and the one-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species. Darwin's ideas have influenced ...

These findings suggest that, because of the links between beaks and song, an entirely new species of Darwin's medium ground finches could evolve in response to six major Galapagos droughts.

Both behind the scenes and on display in the galleries, you'll find many specimens collected by Charles Darwin on the five-year ... Library holds the world's largest concentration of Darwin works. It ...

Six consecutive droughts is all it takes for a new species of finch to emerge in the Galapagos islands, scientists have said.

During his famed voyage on the HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin noted about the Galápagos Islands that “by far the most remarkable feature in the natural history of this archipelago…is that the ...

For decades, the Charles Darwin Research Station has been at the forefront of leading initiatives in conservation, restoration and sustainable development to ensure the Galápagos Islands remain ...