December 22, 2017

Researchers observe a speciation event over just two generations by Ben Stockwell »

For 40 years the island of Daphne Major has been a key site for evolutionary research. The island’s remote location, low levels of human activity, and small number of predators and competitor species make it the ideal site for evolutionary studies. An incredible recent study by a group of researchers on the island has now read more

December 6, 2017

Changing beaks – A shift in evolutionary thought by Sarah Langford »

From the isolated island of Daphne Major in Galapagos to semi-ancient woodlands in Oxfordshire in the UK, an advance in scientific techniques has enabled us to increase our understanding of evolution on a scale Darwin could not have envisaged. In the heart of Oxfordshire seventy years ago, a pioneering long-term study of the great tits read more