classic work on speciation derived from his extensive knowledge of the birds of the Indonesian archipelago. A recent classic on speciation returns to the Galapagos. Peter Grant and his wife Rosemary ...

Indeed, the Galapagos have been called a living laboratory where speciation can be seen at work. A few million years ago, one species of finch migrated to the rocky Galapagos from the mainland of ...

biologists from the University of Massachusetts Amherst have identified a key connection between ecology and speciation in Darwin's finches, famous residents of the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador.

barren volcanic island in the Galapagos. Even fewer would have the patience to catch, weigh, measure, and identify hundreds of small birds and record their diets of seeds. But for the Grants ...

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 ...

The Galápagos Islands are renowned for their unique biodiversity, particularly the famous Darwin's finches, which have become a symbol of evolution and natural selection. However, these endemic ...

1835 Charles Darwin first surveyed the now famous finches of the Galapagos Islands, but not until a decade later did he fully understand the implications of his observations and incorporate them into ...