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Science 25 April 2003:
Vol. 300. no. 5619, pp. 588 - 589
DOI: 10.1126/science.1084477
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Perspectives

Also see the archival list of Science's Compass: Enhanced Perspectives

ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION:
Enhanced: Darwin's Hummingbirds

Douglas L. Altshuler and Christopher James Clark

Island ecosystems are great places to view evolution in action. In their Perspective, Altshuler and Clark discuss studies on the islands of the Lesser Antilles (Temeles and Kress) that reveal a striking morphological coevolution of the beaks of male and female hummingbirds and the Heliconia flowers on which they feed.

D. L. Altshuler is in the Department of Bioengineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91104, USA. E-mail: doug{at}caltech.edu C. J. Clark is in the Department of Integrative Biology, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.

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