Tag: Galápagos finches

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
March 10, 2026

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, animal embryos, Cambrian fossils, coelacanth, common ancestor, common ancestry, common characters, common descent, convergent evolution, Darwin's Finches, embryonic stage, environmental pressures, Ernst Haeckel, evolutionary predictions, Galápagos finches, geological time, ginkgo trees, horseshoe crabs, hummingbirds, Linnaeus, living fossils, Max Telford, molecular clock, morphology, Nautilus, nightjars, penguins, South Africa, stasis, swallows, swifts, The Tree of Life, The Tree of Life (book), Tree of Life, tuatara, University College London, Wollemi pine}

In Stories from Max Telford’s New Book, Failed Predictions of Common Descent

_{Emily Reeves
March 10, 2026

Biology, Evolution, Life Sciences

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Well-documented examples of organisms show remarkable stasis over hundreds of millions of years. Read More ›

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Author
Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig

Date
November 30, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, amphibians, brachiopods, Cambrian Explosion, cephalopods, corals, Darwin's Finches, endangered species, evolution, fossilization, Galápagos finches, Galápagos Finches series, Galápagos Islands, genotype, macroevolution, North America, ornithology, population size, South America, speciation, women}

“Darwin’s Finches”: Galápagos Islands as an Evolutionary Model

_{Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
November 30, 2020

Evolution

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Taking the facts and arguments presented together, it appears to be clear that no macroevolution is happening in “Darwin’s finches.” Read More ›

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Author
Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig

Date
November 25, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, beak size, birds, Darwin's Finches, droughts, Galápagos finches, Galápagos Finches series, Galápagos Islands, macroevolution, natural selection, Nature (journal), Peter and Rosemary Grant, Sangeet Lamichhaney, seeds, Sisyphean evolution, species}

Galápagos Finches — Some Contradictions Solved

_{Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
November 25, 2020

Evolution

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The authors offer a selectionist explanation, which is nevertheless uncertain. Note the repeated use of the subjunctive. Read More ›

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Author
Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig

Date
November 24, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, alleles, beak size, Charles Darwin, Daphne Major, Darwin's Finches, evolution, Galápagos finches, Galápagos Finches series, Galápagos Islands, genera, macroevolution, natural selection, neo-Darwinian evolution, Peter and Rosemary Grant, Princeton University, Sangeet Lamichhaney, Sisyphean evolution, speciation, species, The Evolution of the Long-Necked Giraffe}

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

_{Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
November 24, 2020

Evolution

4}

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

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Author
Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig

Date
November 20, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, alleles, beak size, Darwin's Finches, DNA, dog breeds, evolution, Galápagos finches, Galápagos Finches series, genotype, macroevolution, National Academy of Sciences, natural selection, Nature (journal), Neo-Darwinism, speciation}

Galápagos Finches — A Paradigm of the Limits of Natural Selection?

_{Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
November 20, 2020

Evolution

4}

They are not, per the National Academy of Sciences, a “particularly convincing example for speciation.” Read More ›

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Author
Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig

Date
November 18, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Adaptive Radiation, beak size, biology textbooks, evolution, Federal Government, fitness, Galápagos finches, Galápagos Finches series, hybridization, Icons of Evolution, Jonathan Wells, Peter and Rosemary Grant, Sisyphean evolution, Sisyphus, weather, Winston Churchill, Zombie Science (book)}

Galápagos Finches and a Surprising Deletion

_{Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
November 18, 2020

Evolution

4}

How could the authors suddenly do this? Some of the following points may be considered. Read More ›

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Author
Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig

Date
November 17, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Darwin's Finches, Galápagos finches, Galápagos Finches series, Galápagos Islands, Harvard University, National Academy of Sciences, Nature (journal), Peter and Rosemary Grant, Sangeet Lamichhaney, speciation}

Are Galápagos Finches “Evolution in Action”?

_{Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
November 17, 2020

Evolution

6}

In a series of posts starting today, I offer some notes on the question of whether macroevolution is happening on the Galápagos Islands. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
March 25, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, ALX1, Amber Rice, birds, birth defects, cichlid fish, Darwin Devolves, Darwinian evolution, Darwinian processes, Evolution (journal), evolutionary biologists, First Rule of Adaptive Evolution, Galápagos finches, genes, Greg Lang, Lake Victoria, Lehigh University, mutations, nucleotides, proteins, Rosemary Grant, Sangeet Lamichhaney, yeast}

A Response to My Lehigh Colleagues, Part 2

_{Michael Behe
March 25, 2019

Evolution, Intelligent Design

11}

Lang and Rice cite a number of articles to show that loss-of-function mutations are just a small minority of those found in studies of organisms. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Reeves

Date
December 5, 2018

Categories
Biochemistry
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, bacterial flagellum, Center for Science and Culture, classroom, Darwin Devolves, Darwin's Black Box, evolution, Galápagos finches, gene regulatory networks, HarperOne, Hawaii, high school, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Lehigh University, media, Michael Behe, mollusks, mosses, neo-Darwinian theory, outboard motor, stator, textbooks, The Edge of Evolution, video course}

Behe’s New Video Course — No Spoilers Here

_{Daniel Reeves
December 5, 2018

Biochemistry, Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

5}

Let’s just say that Michael Behe’s latest work has further refined his edge of evolution, in a highly significant way. Intrigued? Read More ›

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Date
December 6, 2017

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, BBC News, beak size, Charles Darwin, Galápagos finches, Germans, hybridization, Japanese, Jonathan Wells, On the Origin of Species, Peter and Rosemary Grant, Princeton University, science, species, Tree of Life, Zombie Science (book)}

Zombie Watch: Debunked Finches Re-Emerge to Validate Darwin

_{Science & Culture
December 6, 2017

Evolution

6}

Another paper regurgitates a myth that was thoroughly debunked by Jonathan Wells in Zombie Science. Read More ›