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Photo credit: Lip Kee, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Merry Christmas! No. 8 Story for 2025: Optimization and “Evolution Before Our Eyes”

On Daphne Major, a Galápagos island, there are three major types of finch food: large seeds, small seeds, and pollen and insects. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Lip Kee, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Optimization: The Engineering Explanation for “Evolution Happening Before Our Eyes”

On Daphne Major, a Galápagos island, there are three major types of finch food: large seeds, small seeds, and pollen and insects. Read More ›
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Photo: Galápagos finch, by kuhnmi, via Flickr.

Galápagos Finches — An “Exceptionally Strong Natural-Selection Event”?

This is by no means an all-or-nothing selection (as the impression is sometimes given). Rather, the alleles are retained. Read More ›

Big Bird — Evolution’s “Smoking Gun”?

Against the backdrop of research of Princeton’s Peter and Rosemary Grant, Darwin’s finches are among the most hyped illustrations of evolution in action. Read More ›

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