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Galapagos Islands

A group of islands in the Pacific off south America; owned by Ecuador; known for unusual animal life.A place made famous in biology by Charles darwin and his work in evolution, the galapagos Islands are populated by Darwin's_Finches who founded his wo.


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... situation is beak size in birds. In particular, Darwin's finches in the Galapagos islands. During a period of drought, small-seed plants began to dominate the flora and there ...

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by robsabba
Thu Aug 27, 2009 2:48 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Natural selection is proven wrong
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Re: Diversifying selection

... island that already has the intermediates and the two extremes. In the Galapagos, there is a big beak finch on one of the islands eating the big nuts that only grow on that island. And on another island, there is ...

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by kolean
Wed Jul 08, 2009 3:23 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Diversifying selection
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Working in Galapagos?

... here has ever worked or heard about/read about people who work in the Galapagos Islands doing biology (of any kind). I'm asking because I am a resident of Ecuador (Galapagos ...

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by darfunkel
Sat Jun 27, 2009 12:47 am
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Working in Galapagos?
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Re: Islands and Evolution

Sometimes islands come in groups, which permits you to see the way the same ancestor radiates into ... different environmental conditions on different islands. This was very true for the Galapagos and Darwin's finches.

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by skeptic
Tue Apr 28, 2009 10:08 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Islands and Evolution
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Islands and Evolution

That's also the very idea of Darwin's finches in Galapagos islands, right?

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by mcar
Thu Apr 23, 2009 11:30 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Islands and Evolution
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