The Gal��pagos Islands Are an Icon of Evolution���But Should They Be?

When the average person thinks of the Gal��pagos Islands, two things come to mind���giant tortoises and Charles Darwin (and maybe a third thing���finches). And that���s, of course, because it was on those islands off the coast of Ecuador that the H.M.S. Beagle, the ship on which Darwin was sailing as a naturalist, docked and Darwin observed finches with different-sized beaks���an evidence later used to support his ideas of evolution. But are these remote islands really a laboratory for evolutio...