Beak Heat: Evolutionary Theory of Bird Bills Need May Need Revision
Wednesday, August 1, 2012 - 10:30
in Biology & Nature
A finch's beak evolves according to the size and shape of available seeds. That conventional wisdom is one of the most accepted facts in science--it has been proved again and again in research that began in the Galápagos Islands, and stretches from Charles Darwin in the 1830s through to the modern work of evolutionary biologists Peter and Rosemary Grant. Case closed--right? [More]