To register your interest please contact [email protected] providing details of the course you are teaching. David Lack's classic work on the finches of the Galapagos Islands (Darwin's ...

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 ...

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 ...

David Lack's classic work on the finches of the Galapagos Islands (Darwin's Finches) was first published in 1947; few books have had such a great impact on evolutionary biology, indeed it is still one ...

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 ...

These findings suggest that, because of the links between beaks and song, an entirely new species of Darwin's medium ground finches could evolve in response to six major Galapagos droughts.

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 ...

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.

Charles Darwin is celebrated as one of the greatest British scientists who ever lived ... If the changes are great enough, they could produce a new species altogether. On his travels Darwin had ...

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 ...

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 ...