With their isolation and rich biodiversity, the Galapagos Islands have long served as a living laboratory for understanding evolution — and the finches have played an illuminating role in the ...

the endemic Galapagos finches, have probably featured in as many evolutionary discussions as any group of animals. They differ from almost all other land birds of oceanic islands in that there is ...

Six consecutive droughts is all it takes for a new species of finch to emerge in the Galapagos islands ... Charles Darwin uncover the process of evolution by natural selection.

The big-beaked finches just happened to be the ones favored by the particular set of conditions Nature imposed that year. Now the next step: evolution. The Grants found that the offspring of the ...

In a study, published in Science Advances, an international team of researchers have identified 28 gene regions that have been particularly important in the evolution of Darwin's finches.

The birds of the Galapagos Islands gave Darwin some of his best evidence for evolution. Now some of those birds have evolved an extreme dislike of all the noise of this increasingly busy tourist ...

Scientists have revealed that just six consecutive droughts can lead to the emergence of a new species of finch in the Galapagos islands ... Darwin understand evolution by natural selection.

On the Galapagos Islands, a ground finch that usually munched on small, soft seeds was forced, during a drought, to eat harder, larger ones. Within the space of a few generations, the bird evolved ...