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 ...

Today's scientists marvel that the 19th-century naturalist's grand vision of evolution is still the key to life ...

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 ...

William Perlman / Star Ledger / Corbis Charles Darwin's study of finches is "more complicated than anyone thought." Granger Collection, New York An 1890-illustration of the H.M.S. Beagle carrying ...

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

Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species is arguably the most important book in biology ... It has 478 editions of On the Origin of Species in 38 languages and in Braille. Galápagos finches, commonly ...

This year marks the two-hundredth anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth and the one-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species. Darwin's ideas have influenced ...

Charles Darwin was born in Shropshire ... and there were differences between the finches (a type of bird), as the shape of their beaks varied. On the Galapagos Islands, Darwin observed how ...

The journey of young Charles Darwin aboard His Majesty's ... Never mind the notion of Darwin's finches. For a fresh view of the Beagle voyage, start with Darwin's armadillos and giant sloths.

"We know relatively little about the adaptations and social dynamics of animals that rely on these resources." Researchers ...

The Charles Darwin bicentennial celebrates the man who recognized natural selection and changed the world's views on evolution. However, his contributions to geology should not be overlooked.