Tag: Peter and Rosemary Grant

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
December 25, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Science Reporting
Tagged
, archetype, biological systems, biology, cold-spots, Daphne Major, Darwin's Finches, DNA, evolution, finches, fitness, Galápagos Islands, generalists, genetic variation, haplotype blocks, intelligent design, line, optimality, Pareto front, Pareto trajectory, Peter and Rosemary Grant, polytope, radiation, random mutations, randomness, specialists, systems biologists, trade-offs, triangle, Uppsala University, Uri Alon, Vilfredo Pareto}

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

_{Emily Reeves
December 25, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science Reporting

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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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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
October 22, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Science Reporting
Tagged
, archetype, biological systems, biology, cold-spots, Daphne Major, Darwin's Finches, DNA, evolution, finches, fitness, Galápagos Islands, generalists, genetic variation, haplotype blocks, intelligent design, line, optimality, Pareto front, Pareto trajectory, Peter and Rosemary Grant, polytope, radiation, random mutations, randomness, specialists, systems biologists, trade-offs, triangle, Uppsala University, Uri Alon, Vilfredo Pareto}

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

_{Emily Reeves
October 22, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science Reporting

9}

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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post

Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
February 15, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Artificial Selection, Charles Darwin, Darwin's Finches, evolution, Galápagos Islands, industrial melanism, macroevolution, microevolution, mutations, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, peppered moths, Peter and Rosemary Grant, Theodosius Dobzhansky, Top Scientific Problems with Evolution (series)}

Non-Mendelian Inheritance Undermines Neo-Darwinism

_{Science and Culture
August 13, 2021

Evolution

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Neo-Darwinians breathed a sigh of relief when in the 1930s they found a way to incorporate Mendel’s laws of heredity. Now, that relief is unraveling. 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

5}

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 19, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, ALX1, American Museum of Natural History, Biological Reviews, Charles Darwin, Darwin's Finches, evolution, finch beaks, Galápagos Finches series, Galápagos Islands, haplotypes, Jonathan Wells, Michael Behe, morphology, Peter and Rosemary Grant, Sisyphus, University of Minnesota}

On the “Sisyphean Evolution of Darwin’s Finches”

_{Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
November 19, 2020

Evolution

9}

Scientific data are followed by the myth: “Finch beak morphology observed on the Galápagos Islands was used by Darwin to formulate his theory of evolution.” Read More ›

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post

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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post

Date
December 4, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, bacteria, bats, behavior, Darwin Devolves, Darwin's Finches, Darwinism, dolphins, echolocation, evolution, Galápagos Islands, Hippocratic Oath, homeostasis, Illustra Media, Immune System, Jerry Coyne, Marcos Eberlin, Michael Behe, Peter and Rosemary Grant, pharynx, Philip Skell, phylogeny, PNAS, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Richard Dawkins, turtles, whales}

No Harm, No Foul — What If Darwinism Were Excised from Biology?

_{Science and Culture
December 4, 2019

Evolution

10}

Considering several recent papers shows that eliminating evolutionary words and concepts simplifies and improves scientific explanations. Read More ›