Tag: Darwin’s finches
Recasting Darwin Stories into Engineering Models
Darwin gets credit by default for changes in organisms that should be seen instead as engineered products of foresight.
“Darwin’s Finches”: Galápagos Islands as an Evolutionary Model
Taking the facts and arguments presented together, it appears to be clear that no macroevolution is happening in “Darwin’s finches.”
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.
On the “Sisyphean Evolution of Darwin’s Finches”
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.”
Are Galápagos Finches “Evolution in Action”?
In a series of posts starting today, I offer some notes on the question of whether macroevolution is happening on the Galápagos Islands.