Darwin's Finches and Evolution (Classroom Series)
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Natural History Museums and school textbooks feature Darwin's Finches as evidence for evolution theory. How do these finches support the idea of evolution? Are the changes we observe in finch beaks due to evolution or epigenetics?
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- She's got a nice one. True. What about his? Interesting. Okay, okay.
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- Can we stop looking at everyone's noses and get back to the finches' beaks for now? So, on the
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- Galapagos, Darwin found that finch beaks and their feet varied island by island, proving evolution because nature was selecting the fittest birds to survive and reproduce.
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- Uh, I don't think that that proves evolution. It just simply shows that the finches' beaks were adapting to their food sources on that specific island.
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- There was a 2017 article in the science journal BMC Evolutionary Biology, and they found they weren't actually mutating and evolving by mutations and natural selection.
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- Instead, it was epigenetic changes, which is special coding that allows the animals to track and adapt to their environments without changing the
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- DNA, and it happens in just one generation. So, it was never evolution.