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Playing songs to Darwin's finches helps confirm link between environmental change and emergence of new species
The innovative key to this discovery? The ghosts of future finches. The new study shows that beak-driven changes to songs themselves can impact species recognition, and thus drive the separation ...
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Teaching birds to change their tune
The researchers used a computerized system to continuously monitor the song of eleven adult male Bengalese finches (Nature 450, 1240–1244; 2007). Finch song consists of a stereotyped sequence of ...