The Grants study the evolution of Darwin's finches on the Galapagos Islands ... The Grants have focused their research on the medium ground finch, Geospiza fortis, on the small island of Daphne ...

Medium ground finches could not compete with the large ... The Grants argue that this hybridization is pretty common on the Galapagos Islands. They compared the genetic similarity between the ...

Looking at the DNA of medium ground finches who lived (and died ... and colleagues at Uppsala University in Sweden have already done on Galapagos finches. In a study published last year, the ...

Scientists have sequenced the genome of one of the iconic Galapagos finches first described by Charles Darwin. The genome of the medium ground finch (Geospiza fortis) is among the first of a ...

Researchers travel in the Galapagos Islands to tag finches in ... A female Darwin’s medium ground finch (Geospiza fortis) courtesy of Andrew Hendry. Podos also hoped to test female finches ...

Here, Sangeet Lamichhaney and colleagues genetically sequenced six species of Darwin's finches that differ in size and size-related traits: the small, medium, and large ground finches, and the ...

A female medium ground finch, one of at least 14 species of Darwin’s finches in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. Jennifer Koop, University of Utah During Charles Darwin’s journey to the ...

On the Galapagos Islands, a ground finch that usually munched on small, soft seeds was forced, during a drought, to eat harder, larger ones. Within the space of a few generations, the bird evolved ...

The beaks of Darwin’s medium ground finches can evolve to crush ... droughts is all it takes for a new species of finch to emerge in the Galapagos islands, scientists have said.

The Grants study the evolution of Darwin's finches on the Galapagos Islands ... The Grants have focused their research on the medium ground finch, Geospiza fortis, on the small island of Daphne ...