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The finches that Peter and Rosemary Grant chose to study the Finches in the Galapagos because they are hybrid.
Directional Selection
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The finches that Peter and Rosemary Grant chose to study the Finches in the Galapagos because they are hybrid.
Peter and Rosemary Grant chose to study the Finches in the Galapagos because they were hybrid.
They were studying the finches on the Galapagos Island. They were also collaborating to band and measure the finches...
Directional Selection
The couple spent years observing and documenting environmental conditions of Galapagos finches and how it related to beak structure. They discovered that environmental changes favored certain individuals who in turn, passed those favored traits on to their offspring. This occured more rapidly than previously supposed.
Rosemary and Peter Grant.
Directional selection
Changes in the weather led to changes in the food supply available. Sometimes there would be hard nuts, and the finches with tough beaks would survive. However, if, on that same island, the weather changed and longer beaks would be advantageous, the tough-beaked finches would die out and slender beaks would dominate. This is proven by the extensive research carried out by Peter and Rosemary Grant from 1973 to the present.
Peter Grant studied the finches of the Galapagos Islands to understand how natural selection and adaptive radiation contribute to the evolution of new species. His goal was to investigate how environmental factors drive changes in beak morphology and behavior among different finch populations.
Peter R. Grant has written: 'Ecology and Evolution of Darwin's Finches' -- subject(s): Ecology, Evolution, Finches 'Evolution on Islands' 'The evolution of Darwin's finches, mockingbirds and flies' -- subject(s): Finches, Evolution (Biology), Evolution, Flies, Mockingbirds
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He didn't do the study of the Galapagos Finches. The people who studied these birds were biologist Peter Grant and Rosemary Grant. They looked at beak size and shape. The finches are commonly called Darwin's finches, however, they really were not studied by him. They used to finches to study Darwin's Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection. In order for NS to occur there must be variation in a population, variations must be heritable, the species must be reproductively successful, and the survival and reproduction of an individual must be nonrandom. The Grants came up with 4 postulates based on the NS model. 1. Is the finch population variable? 2. Is some off the variation among individuals heritable? 3.Do individuals vary in their reproductive success? 4. Are survival and reproduction nonrandom? The overall conclusion that they made was that: when all four of Darwin's postulates are true in a population, the population will evolve; and that evolution an occur over a short period of time.