In 1898, Hermon Bumpus published a paper about change in the morphology in a population of House Sparrows that he proposed was an example...
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Ideas, like catwalk fashions, come and go in cycles, and so even the worst scientific mistakes will one day be back in some new...
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If you know only a little bit about Charles Darwin, you know that he figured out Evolution via his study of the finches (and...
Think about the difference between birds and mammals. You’re a mammal, so you might be tempted to use yourself as an example mammal, but...
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One common feature of the relationship between early explorers and colonists and the birds of the New Worlds was the tendency of said explorers to name birds after familiar...
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