"I started working with these birds 25 years ago," says Jeffrey Podos, professor of biology at UMass Amherst and the paper's senior author. " In my very first publication on the finches, back in 2001, ...

They say that hindsight is 20/20, and though the theory of ecological speciation -- which holds that new species emerge in response to ecological changes -- seems to hold in retrospect, it has been ...

Finches on the Galapagos Islands that inspired Charles Darwin to develop the concept of evolution are helping confirm it — by evolving. A medium-size species of Darwin's finch has evolved a smaller ...

When Darwin watched his famous finches flit about the craggy cliffs and lush forests of the Galapagos, he observed that something essential was at work in this remote part of the Pacific – some force ...

Speciation, adaptive radiation, and evolution -- Daphne finches : a question of size -- Heritable variation -- Natural selection and evolution -- Breeding ecology and fitness -- A potential competitor ...

The Galápagos Islands have long symbolised evolutionary ingenuity, typified by Darwin’s finches. However, the recent incursion of avian parasites, most notably the invasive fly Philornis downsi, has ...

AMHERST, Mass. – They say that hindsight is 20/20, and though the theory of ecological speciation — which holds that new species emerge in response to ecological changes — seems to hold in retrospect, ...