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The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time

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The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time

by: Jonathan Weiner

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Binding: Paperback
Brand: PBS
EAN: 9780679733379
Edition: 1st Vintage Bks Ed, Jun. 1995
ISBN: 067973337X
Item Dimensions: 7955207270
Label: Vintage
Languages: EnglishUnknownEnglishOriginal LanguageEnglishPublished
Manufacturer: Vintage
MPN: BKFN855
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 332
Publication Date: May 30, 1995
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: May 30, 1995
Studio: Vintage

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

On a desert island in the heart of the Galapagos archipelago, where Darwin received his first inklings of the theory of evolution, two scientists, Peter and Rosemary Grant, have spent twenty years proving that Darwin did not know the strength of his own theory. For among the finches of Daphne Major, natural selection is neither rare nor slow: it is taking place by the hour, and we can watch.

In this dramatic story of groundbreaking scientific research, Jonathan Weiner follows these scientists as they watch Darwin's finches and come up with a new understanding of life itself. The Beak of the Finch is an elegantly written and compelling masterpiece of theory and explication in the tradition of Stephen Jay Gould.

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Rosemary and Peter Grant and those assisting them have spend twenty years on Daphne Major, an island in the Galapagos studying natural selection. They recognize each individual bird on the island, when there are four hundred at the time of the author's visit, or when there are over a thousand. They have observed about twenty generations of finches -- continuously.
Jonathan Weiner follows these scientists as they watch Darwin's finches and come up with a new understanding of life itself.

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