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...Abzhanov said that the next challenge is for researchers to explain the genetic origins of the higher order transformations that account for the differences in beak shapes above the species level...

Author: By Christopher M Lehman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Studying the Beaks of Darwin’s Finches | 3/5/2010 | See Source »

...team of Harvard evolutionary biologists and applied mathematicians led by Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Professor Arkhat Abzhanov published a study which reveals how variation in certain genes translates into observable phenotypic differences in the beaks of Darwin’s finches...

Author: By Christopher M Lehman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Studying the Beaks of Darwin’s Finches | 3/5/2010 | See Source »

According to team leader Abzhanov, the findings shed new light on the work of D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson, a Scottish biologist who used mathematics in the early 20th century to explore the morphological relationships between different species of crabs...

Author: By Christopher M Lehman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Studying the Beaks of Darwin’s Finches | 3/5/2010 | See Source »

...magic of [Darwin] is to be able to open up his papers, see his writing,” Browne said at the Darwin Day Symposium, which also featured Stephen Pinker, Hopi E. Hoekstra, Marc D. Hauser, and Arkhat Abzhanov...

Author: By Manning Ding, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Darwin’s 200th Commemorated | 2/13/2009 | See Source »

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