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Scientists found evolution repeating itself in the Galápagos Islands

ScienceDailyThursday, July 30, 2026 at 12:13 PM

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Scientists found evolution repeating itself in the Galápagos Islands
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More than 150 years after Darwin’s finches helped reshape biology, Galápagos plants are exposing another evolutionary surprise. Giant daisies repeatedly developed similar heat-tolerant leaf shapes, but each lineage used a different combination of genes.

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More than 150 years after Darwin’s finches helped reshape biology, Galápagos plants are exposing another evolutionary surprise. Giant daisies repeatedly developed similar heat-tolerant leaf shapes, but each lineage used a different combination of genes.

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