Mentioned in

References in periodicals archive

Rosemary Grant, who have been documenting changes in populations of Darwin's finches for decades.

One gene governs finch beak size: Galapagos bird's postdrought molecular evolution detailed

For many people, British ornithologist David Lack's studies of finches on the Galapagos Islands, culminating in his landmark 1947 book, Darwin's Finches, captured the essence of neo-Darwinism's metaphor of a tree with never-crossing, ever-diverging branches.

Evolution's new look: from the sudden spread of West Nile virus in the United States to the discovery that Galapagos Island finches are evolving by unexpected means, there are signs that the natural world does not function quite as we thought. A variety of scientific findings now point to the need for a radically revised understanding of the way evolution itself works

The cactus finch, one of 13 closely related Darwin's finches unique to the Galapagos, has a specially adapted beak, sturdy enough to open a hole in the side of the tough fruit.

The Cactus Connection - For many plants and animals on the Galapagos Islands, survival makes for some prickly partnerships

He intends to smash the holiest relics of evolutionary theory, the examples used in textbooks or the popular press to such a degree that they have become "icons." He attacks in turn the origin of life's building blocks, the evolutionary tree, homology of vertebrate limbs, Haeckel's embryos, origin of birds, peppered moths, Darwin's finches, mutation, horse evolution, and apes to humans.

An Iconoclast for Evolution? A Berkeley-educated biologist's attack on the icons of evolution is full of sound and fury, signifying a difference in philosophy--not science

Examples of adaptive radiation include fruit flies (Drosophila) and honeycreepers (drepanidids) in Hawaii, iguanas (Ctenosaura) and lizards (Anolis) in the Antilles, and, of course, in tortoises (Geochelone elephantopus) (see figure 193) and in Darwin's finches the Galapagos Islands.

The finches of the Galapagos Islands

A genetic study has shown that Darwin's finches, which were cited as a textbook example of the evolutionary process, are continuing to evolve in their native Galapagos Islands, according to a U.S.

Study shows Darwin's finches to be still evolving

Fitness of 1987 cohorts of Darwin's Finches (over four years).

Natural hybridization: how low can you go and still be important?

There he found some fourteen species of finches, today called Darwin's finches, which varied among themselves in food habits, size, and shape of bill.

CHARLES DARWIN

Oscillating selection on Darwin's finches. Nature 327:511-513.

Founder effects and peak shifts without genetic drift: adaptive peak shifts occur easily when environments fluctuate slightly

This time I'll respond: My school is where I fit in, where I've evolved as an educator--kind of like Darwin's finches or Galapagos turtles.

The flip side of paradise

These include Darwin's Finches of the Galapagos, such as the Large Ground Finch."

1.5 Degree C or Less Would Save Most Species