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Galapagos finches

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Galapagos finches: see Darwin's finches Darwin's finches or Galapagos finches , species of small finches, constituting the subfamily Geospizinae of the finch family. This group of thirteen species is confined to the Galápagos Islands, except a single species found on Cocos
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They show, for instance, that Darwin gleaned a great deal of insight from his observations of birdlife other than the famous Galapagos finches.
As for the Galapagos finches, Andrew Lomas, they are still finches, not other dicky birds
David Lack, the 1940s biologist who did the definitive work on Galapagos finches once said that neither scientific materialism nor religious devotion can alone explain the living world, as both entail "unexplained gaps and contradictions.
 
 
 
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