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 ...

The paper, by S. Lamichhaneyat Uppsala University in Uppsala, Sweden, and colleagues was titled, "A beak size locus in Darwin's finches facilitated character displacement during a drought." ...

How do you know that finches' beak depth is heritable? You can see from Figure 2 that there is a correlation between the parents' and offsprings' beak size. How did the finch population change ...

The finches in the above video were collected from the Galápagos Islands in 1835 by Charles Darwin and his colleagues during the second voyage of HMS Beagle (1831-1836). The different finch species on ...

The term "genetics" wasn't even coined until 1905 ... researchers are now working out the molecular changes that allowed Darwin's Galápagos finches to evolve different beaks in response to ...

Darwin noted how different finches from the Galapagos Island developed different kinds of beaks, based on the food that they specialized in eating. Later studies showed how rapid fluctuations in ...

Tui De Roy / Minden Pictures In Charles Darwin’s day, the Galápagos Islands ... descended from castaways that arrived by sea or air. Finches and mockingbirds were blown off course by storms ...

What gives an Australian finch its brilliantly colored red ... "Now, 165 years after Darwin first published his theory of evolution, we can see exactly how the frequency of these genes changes ...

The data collected by Darwin’s Cats will help to build one of the most comprehensive databases on feline genetics, creating new opportunities to understand cat genetic diversity, traits, behaviors, ...