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Do Polynesian Canoes Evolve Like Finch Beaks?Despite the popularity of cultural evolution as an idea, with cultures as organisms and memes as genes, the actual science has lagged. But by applying the tools of population genetics to Polynesian boat designs, researchers show that cultural evolution might be studied as rigorously as the beaks... |
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'Goldberg' Variations for Harp — Catrin FinchThe Welsh harpist transcribed Bach's masterwork after listening to Glenn Gould's recordings.Her arrangement appears on a new Deutsche Grammophon disc. ... |
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Newly Goat-Free, a Galapagos Island Awaits a Finch RenaissanceWhen Charles Darwin first came upon the Galapagos Islands, he wasn't as impressed with the diversity of bird life he found there as is widely believed. It was later, at home, that his observations of the beaks of finches led him toward his revolutionary theory of evolution. Still, the finches of ... |
