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Published online 13 July 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news060710-11
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Evolution caught in the act
Smaller beaks in Galápagos finches make finding food easier.
Competition between two species of finch in the Galápagos has caused the beak size of one species to shrink, and scientists have watched it happen. Detailed observations of the birds, which Darwin famously studied while formulating his theory of evolution, have provided one of the best descriptions of a characteristic trait evolving in the wild.
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