In his memoir, The Voyage of the Beagle, Darwin noted, almost as if in awe, "One might really fancy that, from an original paucity of birds in this archipelago, one species had been taken and ...

In 1833, a young Charles Darwin met an animal in the Falkland Islands that he couldn’t explain: a large, social, strangely inquisitive bird of prey that looked and acted like a cross between an eagle ...

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 ...

John Edmonstone was a former enslaved man who taught the young Charles Darwin the skill of taxidermy. This skill helped Darwin preserve the birds that fermented his ideas about evolution. Many Black ...

Some of our most famous specimens were collected by Charles Darwin and Captain Robert FitzRoy ... The most famous of the discovered species are undoubtedly the Galapagos finches, commonly known as ...

The Galápagos Islands served as the site of Charles Darwin's famous flora ... Galapagos penguins and Darwin's finches), not to mention other unique species like waved albatrosses and blue ...

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, the very name synonymous with the pioneering ... Whether it was the intricate design of seashells or the ...

But the theory that made Darwin famous didn't come to him overnight, he didn't have an Isaac Newton moment where a bird flew into his face and he was like, Charles Darwin: Ah! You know what?