Darwin's Hummingbirds
- 25 April 2003
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 300 (5619) , 588-589
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1084477
Abstract
Island ecosystems are great places to view evolution in action. In their Perspective, Altshuler and Clark discuss studies on the islands of the Lesser Antilles (Temeles and Kress) that reveal a striking morphological coevolution of the beaks of male and female hummingbirds and the Heliconia flowers on which they feed.Keywords
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