Top 16 Peter R. Grant Quotes

#1. We observe closely related species in sympatry and infer how they evolved from a common ancestor.

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#2. Almost nothing is known from hybridization studies about the inheritance of courtship behavior of females, or of their responsiveness to particular male signals.

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#3. Exchange of breeding individuals between two populations tends to homogenize their gene pools.

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#4. The independent role of morphology in mate choice is revealed by the rare instances where the usual association between song and morphology is disrupted.

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#5. Thus mating of females was strictly along the lines of paternal song.

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#6. Species can be recognized by their morphological characteristics and songs.

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#7. The divergence of songs in the new population away from those in the progenitor population would only be prevented if these processes were balanced by repeated immigration and subsequent breeding: song flow.

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#8. Plumage features constitute a major component of courtship signals.

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#9. To summarize, the particular song a male sings, and the behavioral responses of females to song and morphological signals, are not genetically inherited in a fixed manner but are determined by learning early in life.

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#10. The process of speciation is completed with the cessation of genetic exchange.

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#11. The theory of founder effects does not explain how novel features like plumage traits arise.

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#12. Thus the genetic basis to the origin of bird species is to be sought in the inheritance of adult traits that are subject to natural and sexual selection.

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#13. Genes that underlie the capacity to receive, use and transmit information are the evolving properties.

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#14. Closely related species of birds are also chromosomally similar.

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#15. Islands are known to differ in the food supply available to ground finches, mainly seeds.

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#16. Evidence of epistasis from hybridization studies is more scarce.

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