Genetics of Darwin’s Finches
The finches Charles Darwin encountered on the Galapagos Islands have served as one of the most enduring examples of evolution throughout the twentieth century.
As Darwin explains in The Origin of Species, “one [finch] species had been taken and modified [changed] for different ends” – the essence of natural selection.
However, in the nineteenth century. the technology to scientifically validate these changes in the genetics of Darwin’s finches was inconceivable.
