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Darwins finches, inhabiting the Galápagos archipelago and Cocos island, constitute an iconic model for studies of speciation and adaptive evolution. A team of scientists from Uppsala University and Princeton University has now shed light on the evolutionary2 history of these birds and identified a gene3 that explains variation in beak4 shape within and among species. The study is published today in Nature, on the day before the 206th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin. Darwins finches are a classical example of an adaptive radiation. Their common ancestor arrived on the Galapagos about