A team of scientists from Uppsala University and Princeton University, led by Leif Andersson at SciLifeLab in Uppsala, has now shed light on the evolutionary history of Darwin's finches and have identified a gene that explains variation in
beak shape within and among species.
Adaptationism certainly appears to hold true in microevolution — small - scale evolutionary change
within species, such as changes in
beak shape in Galapagos finches in response to available food sources.