Ten Birds That Changed the World — a review
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 14, 2023
They were barely mentioned in The Voyage of the Beagle and not at all in On the Origin of Species. Hundreds of millions of sparrows were killed, almost to the point of extinction. Later it was thought that the widely varying beak sizes and types of those phenotypes inspired Darwin’s insights, a la Newton and his apple.
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