What Darwin's Finches Can Teach Us about the Evolutionary Origin and Regulation of Biodiversity

BioScience

Volumn 53, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 965-975

  Grant, B Rosemary ^a   Grant, Peter R ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Gal pagos history; Natural selection; Song learning; Speciation

Indexed keywords

DAPHNE; FRINGILLIDAE;

EID: 0141907689     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1641/0006-3568(2003)053[0965:WDFCTU]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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