They say that hindsight is 20/20, and though the theory of ecological speciation -- which holds that new species emerge in response to ecological changes -- seems to hold in retrospect, it has been ...
The mating song of a male Darwin's medium ground finch. Credit: Jeff Podos He knew, for instance, that beaks can either evolve powerfully to crush hard seeds or they can remain more delicate, thereby ...
Parasites are nasty little bastards. The freeloaders survive by siphoning off the vital nutrients our bodies depend on, making us feel tired and sick. But, bizarrely, they can also impact sex. The ...
AMHERST, Mass. – They say that hindsight is 20/20, and though the theory of ecological speciation — which holds that new species emerge in response to ecological changes — seems to hold in retrospect, ...
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Playing songs to Darwin's finches helps confirm link between environmental change and emergence of new species
"I started working with these birds 25 years ago," says Jeffrey Podos, professor of biology at UMass Amherst and the paper's senior author. " In my very first publication on the finches, back in 2001, ...
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