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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  To summarize, the particular song a male sings, and the behavioral responses of females to song and

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  Genes that underlie the capacity to receive, use and transmit information are the evolving properti

• Peter R. Grant:

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

• Peter R. Grant:

  The divergence of songs in the new population away from those in the progenitor population would on

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

• Peter R. Grant:

  Plumage features constitute a major component of courtship signals.

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  Evidence of epistasis from hybridization studies is more scarce.

• Peter R. Grant:

  Males transmit signals in courtship through behavioral displays.

• Peter R. Grant:

  Almost nothing is known from hybridization studies about the inheritance of courtship behavior of f

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  Closely related species of birds are also chromosomally similar.