GALAPAGOS ISLANDS - Charles Darwin's concept of evolution was fueled by the mockingbirds and finches on these South American islands. During our recent visit to the Galapagos, we saw the wide ...

Darwin's finches in the Galápagos archipelago provide an iconic model for the evolution of biodiversity on earth due to natural selection. A team of scientists from Princeton University and Uppsala ...

Darwin's finches are icons of evolution. Now, researchers have discovered how quickly they can evolve into a new species: with the help of an outside bird, a new species can develop in as little as ...

Despite the traditional view that species do not exchange genes by hybridisation, recent studies show that gene flow between closely related species is more common than previously thought. A team of ...

There are now at least 13 species of finches on the Galapagos Islands, each filling a different niche on different islands. All of them evolved from one ancestral species, which colonized the islands ...