The Galápagos finches are a classic example of adaptive radiation. Their common ancestor arrived on the islands a few million years ago. Since then, a single species has evolved into different species ...

All animals, including humans, descend from a common ancestor. Darwin knew the idea that man was just another animal would go over like a lead balloon in Victorian society. But in the Origin of ...

Each is a member of a family of birds called honeycreepers, and they all share the same common ancestor: a single finchlike species that scientists estimate arrived on the Hawaiian Islands about 5 ...

The idea that humans shared a common ancestor with apes ... landscape.Contrary to popular belief, Darwin did not have a great eureka moment on the Galapagos. He studied finches, tortoises and ...

How Darwin changed the world Darwin’s finches evolve before scientists ... which posited that humans and apes shared a common distant ancestor – exposed him to condemnation and ridicule.

He encountered birds with bright blue feet, sharks with T-shaped heads and giant tortoises ... in the context of the theory of evolution to illustrate that all species on Earth are related and evolved ...

Consider, for instance, the famous finches of the Galápagos. Darwin could see that their ... radi­ation," each species evolving from a common ancestor to exploit a special kind of food.

Darwin managed to make a lot of enemies by demonstrating that humans belong in the animal kingdom, and that all life on Earth descends from a common ancestor. This short, fast-paced film examines ...