Beagle Investigations Return with Darwinian Data

The Darwin's Finch Morphology database contains data, mostly morphological (e.g., beak dimensions), on individual Darwin’s finches. The data are from a number of published and unpublished sources.

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Bibliography

• Price, F. and Donovan, S. (2006). "BioQUEST Library VII: BIRDD: Beagle Investigations Return with Darwinian Data Version 2.0 (User Notes)."  BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium.
• Lack, D.L. (1945). “The Galápagos finches (Geospizinae): a study in variation.” Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences 21: 1-159.
• Lack, D.L. (1947). Darwin's Finches: an essay on the general biological theory of evolution. Cambridge, England, Cambridge University Press.
• Lack, D.L. (1969). “Subspecies and sympatry in Darwin's Finches.” Evolution 23: 252-263.
• Snodgrass, R. E. and E. Heller (1904). “Papers from the Hopkins-Stanford Galapagos Expedition, 1898-99 XVI. Birds.” Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci. 5: 231-372.
• Sulloway, F. J. (1982). “The Beagle collections of Darwin's Finches (Geospizinae).” Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology series 43: 49-94.
• Swarth, H. S. (1931). “The avifauna of the Galapagos Islands.” Occ. Pap. Calif. Acad. Sci 18: 5-299.

Over 6500 specimens that were measured by David Lack. These data were transcribed from records deposited at the California Academy of Sciences.

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Citation

• Lack DL (1947) Darwin's finches: an essay on the general biological theory of evolution, Cambridge University Press.
• Lack DL (1947) Data from: Darwin's finches: an essay on the general biological theory of evolution. Dryad Digital Repository. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.150

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