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After almost 150 years since Charles Darwin wrote "The Origin of Species," laying the foundation of evolutionary biology, scientists have for the first time observed a species evolving into another, a process called speciation.
According to a research published in the journal Science, scientists observed the speciation in an entire population of finches on a tiny Galapagos island called Daphne Major.
Genomic sequencing and the analysis of physical characteristics have confirmed the new species of Darwin's finch, which its discoverers — Peter and B. Rosemary Grant, biologists at Princeton University — have nicknamed Big Bird
"A naturalist who came to Daphne Major without knowing that this lineage arose very recently would have recognised this lineage as one of the four species on the island," said Leif Andersson of Uppsala University in Sweden, who conducted the genetic analysis of the new species. "This clearly demonstrates the value of long-running field studies."
http://www.ibtimes.com/darwins-finch-caught-act-becoming-new-species-2619196