But for the Grants, the rewards have been great: They have done nothing less than witness Darwin's theory of evolution unfold ... of small birds called Darwin's finches. The struggle is mainly ...

Scientists long after Darwin spent years trying to understand the process that had created so many types of finches that differed mainly in the size and shape of their beaks. Most recently ...

Overall, there are about 15 closely related species of Darwin's finches. The video could be used as starter on a lesson on evolution, adaptation and natural selection, or as a part of a discussion on ...

Darwin, who assumed that evolution plodded along at a glacially slow rate, observable only in the fossil record, would be equally delighted by another discovery. In those same Galápagos finches ...

Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection made ... Darwin did not have a great eureka moment on the Galapagos. He studied finches, tortoises and mockingbirds there, although ...

Finches, for example ... was published in November 1859. In the book, Darwin set out his theory of evolution, based on his years of research and what he had seen when travelling across the ...

The finches, many species of them ... the most interesting point missed by the simplified tale is this: Darwin's first real clue toward evolution came not in the Galápagos but three years ...

Darwin’s finches are often thought of as inspiring a ‘eureka moment’, but it was actually mockingbirds that impacted Darwin's thoughts on evolution. Darwin had collected mockingbirds in South America ...

“The central idea of biological evolution is that all life on Earth ... How Darwin changed the world Darwin’s finches evolve before scientists’ eyes Ecuador and the Galapagos: in Darwin ...

because Darwin's finches use songs to attract mates, then song changes related to beak evolution could perhaps catalyze ecological speciation." But, at the time, Podos had no smoking-gun ...

One of Charles Darwin's famous 14 finches — the island-dwelling bird species that helped inspire the theory of evolution — the medium tree finch is found only on Floreana, one of the nine major ...