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Origin of the species: where did Darwin's finches come from?
- tabtab 8y agoRe: where did Darwin's finches come from? From God, of course ;-)
- downrightmike 8y agoDinosaurs :D
- dang 8y agoMaybe, but please don't post unsubstantive comments to HN.
- jandrese 8y agoOne of the caveats of looking at the current populations to determine which group migrated to the island is the current populations may not reflect the populations from 3M years ago. Having the birds be related to a Caribbean species may not be so strange if you consider that it was a variation that is good at migrating long distances over open ocean and may have been locally outcompeted by the current species in South America and died out.