There are now at least 13 species of finches on the Galapagos ... is known as adaptive radiation. In his memoir, The Voyage of the Beagle, Darwin noted, almost as if in awe, "One might really ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

On his travels Darwin had collected finches from many of the Galápagos Islands - off the coast of Ecuador - which helped him to formulate his idea. Cactus finch Geospiza scandens from Charles Darwin’s ...

On the Galapagos Islands, Darwin observed how the beaks of finches differed ... He frequently discussed his ideas with other researchers, such as Charles Lyell, who was a prominent Scottish ...

He studied finches, tortoises and mockingbirds ... He was already worried about his own marriage. Darwin and his cousin Emma had ten children and Charles was a devoted father.

The journey of young Charles Darwin aboard His ... The ornithologist John Gould, to whom Darwin would consign his Galápagos finches and mockingbirds for identification, also got a first look ...

Just two weeks before he died, Charles Darwin wrote a short paper about ... from both fossil armadillos and living rheas and finches, his scientific descendants combine insights from genes with ...

Charles Darwin adored novels. He read them on his now-famous voyage on the Beagle ... from tortoises, finches and ticks to ...

before having his idea presented publicly to a small ... William Perlman / Star Ledger / Corbis Charles Darwin's study of finches is "more complicated than anyone thought." Granger Collection ...