GALAPAGOS ISLANDS — Charles Darwin’s concept of evolution was fueled by the mockingbirds and finches on these South American islands. During our recent visit to the Galapagos, we saw the wide ...

Epigenetics may be how Darwin’s finches rapidly change their beak size and shape in response to sudden environmental changes, such as drought or human disturbance, in the absence of gene mutations ...

Darwin's finches, inhabiting the Galapagos archipelago and Cocos island, constitute an iconic model for studies of speciation and adaptive evolution. A team of scientists has now shed light on the ...

Adaptive Radiation: Darwin's Finches: When Charles Darwin stepped ashore on the Galapagos Islands in September 1835, it was the start of five weeks that would change the world of science, although ...

The wide variety of beak shape and size among finches on the archipelago has become an iconic foundational story behind Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species,” published in 1859 -- even ...

Charles Darwin observed finches in the Galápagos while developing his theory of evolution by natural selection. Those finches' beaks are still evolving today, and scientists have identified ...

When Charles Darwin watched his famous finches flit about the craggy cliffs and lush forests of the Galapagos, he observed that something essential was at work in this remote part of the Pacific ...

During Charles Darwin’s journey to the Galápagos in the 1830s, he noted the existence of “a curious group of finches” found only on the islands. The story that those birds inspired the ...

Charles Darwin's finches on the brink of extinction: Parasitic flies could wipe out the Galapagos Island birds in just 50 years. Researchers ran mathematical simulations to study Darwin finches ...

Nearly 200 years after they first inspired Charles Darwin's theories, Galapagos finches answer lingering evolutionary questions Latest U.S.

The finches hold a unique place in the history of science. The birds, which live only on the Galapagos, were studied closely by Charles Darwin on his Beagle voyage in the 1830s. Observations on the ...

GALAPAGOS ISLANDS - Charles Darwin's concept of evolution was fueled by the mockingbirds and finches on these South American islands. During our recent visit to the Galapagos, we saw the wide ...