Sea Level Shifts Helped Shape Galapagos' Biological Diversity

Originally published: Apr 23 2014 - 12:45pm, Inside Science News ServiceBy: Ker Than, ISNS Contributor(ISNS) -- The birds and reptiles that inhabit the Galapagos Islands famously provided Charles Darwin with key insights into evolution by natural selection, but there's been little research into how the animals came to be distributed across the different islands.Now a new study suggests that rising and falling sea levels played a key role in the distribution of species across the Galapagos by rep...